Who are we fooling?

I just came across a number of great rapid response in the BMJ when I was having a look at the recent hype, if antidepressants work or not and this is part of one the response writen By: BM Hegde, Retd. Vice Chancellor, Mangalore-575 004:

“Mental aberrations like terrorism, robberies, crimes of all kinds and social unrest begin with oppression, suppression and denial in the first place.”

Now why does that remind me of the tactics by our beloved friends, suppress and denial, sounds very much like the start of delusional psychiatry don’t you think??

“Medical science of today is just a statistical science and not true hard science. Have we not treated SMON as a slow virus disease till it was discovered to be an ADR? Did we not treat pellagra and beri beri as infectious diseases for a long time with dangerous arsenicals etc? Did we not teach that liver pumps blood around the body for centuries?

To dwell in the field of the known is not progress. To dare to get into the dark allays of the unknown is true scientific adventure. Werner Forssmann would have been a simple German country doctor if he did not dare to push the urinary catheter into his own heart to get a Nobel. Progress is refutative research.“

Now the thing is, the GOBSART Academy award brigade of denying what is real, and their psycho buddies have said many times that you should not test people you suspect of having ME or CFS as they like to call it.

You see, the bigger the waste bin the better and the more victims they can find for utterly useless CBT as that means more money for delusional minds so they need to keep on telling these porkies as often as they can otherwise...

Now when I did psychiatry as a doc, we would always do an extensive array of blood testing if people were referred and especially if they were admitted to the ward with any mental health problem as the diagnosis from the GP. And I can’t remember how many times people who were depressed according to their GP actually had a thyroid problem to mention just one thing and once that was sorted the depression was gone as well.

I can even remember that elderly patient who went completely bananas, no other word I am afraid.

Now if we would have listened to these delusional psychiatrists we would never have learned that the basis of his bananas was actually a severe anaemia and once he had a few blood transfusions, difficult with someone who was pulling the drip out all the time, he was as good as gold and back to his usual self, now all we had to do was figure out why he had the anaemia.

But if we would have followed the delusional way of thinking, he would now still be on anti psychotics for that matter and might be as stiff as a plank due to their side effects….

And I fully agree that would have been the logical and easy thing to do, but then there was this patient who had a problem that needed solving as that is what I always thought being a doc was all about, but apparently not as we all know….

Even when we had the You and Yours on the good old Beeb and the Cee, without the Tea, there were people saying they had been diagnosed with ME, and it turned out to be Lyme’s disease and yes, the only way to find out would be to test for that disease which you can treat with antibiotics in most people…

Now I have also learned that thanks to the delusional way of thinking many more abled bodied persons have been diagnosed with so called ME, and quite a few of those would actually have something we can treat, if only we would do some bloodtests and so.

And even seeing a good psychiatrist and having a depression or a burn out would be horrible but at least we can treat it and I would have long been better and back at work and independent and so again if that would have been the diagnosis in ME case.

And no, I would not have been angry or disappointed that it wasn’t ME, as I now know that is a horrible illness, even though the delusionists want us to think that by talking to us, denying that it exists and blaming us etc, we can GET better.

By GETting better they mean we can except that we have an illness and that is what they call a cure in delusional minds which you can find enmass in the MAGIC CBT KINGDOM and in the College of Physicians, which is odd, as they are normally the ones who like bloodtesting so much, that whole laboratories thrive on physicians…

Now what did this vice chancellor say, “Medical science of today is just a statistical science and not true hard science”, and without people who would want to GET to the bottom of things, the way engineers think, we would never GET anywhere, but I agree, that is the whole point of the delusional way of thinking about ME.

Now luckily, someone was so kind to point me in the directions of a great CBT fan club, yes really, it does exist, but this time I am not talking about delusional GOBSART fellows etc, no I am talking about, oh well, just have a look yourself and enjoy this great video….