The RSM protest...

As this is the main idea from many doctors about ME, reinforced and fed by the CBT delusionists, I was thinking about the RSM and its conference to make things even worse for Patients with ME.

Denial is the most common strategy by the CBT Delusionists who rule the conference as we know and to sum up their knowledge of ME, let me just mention a few things:

"PRISMA is a multi-national healthcare company of which Wessely is a member of the Supervisory Board; it works with insurance companies and with the NHS to arrange compulsory “rehabilitation” programmes for claimants with “illnesses of modern life”. It uses Wessely’s favoured regime of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) that is designed to change a patient’s behaviour, thought processes and what Wessely deems to be patients’ “aberrant beliefs” that they are physically sick.

Non-biased studies of CBT have found that it did not prove to be an effective intervention (see the results of a randomised controlled trial by Marcus Huibers and Anna Beurskens in The British Journal of Psychiatry: 2004:184:240-246)."

Now let me also quote one of the CBT leaders who stated in the same inquiry:
“I represent an extremely large and really quite brilliant group of people who have assembled at King’s”. IE, brilliant in getting the ELEVEN million for silly therapy...

He also said: that ME and GWS are “illnesses of modern life” yet he also likes to use SAME OLD SAME OLD, ie hysteria and neurathenia of the past are now people with ME. Now hysteria and neurathenia used to be MS and that is a dreadful disease but not the same as ME.

Furthermore ME can't be an old disease and the at the same time an illness of modern life. But that is the PSYCHIATRIC TOMBOLA as used by the delusional psychiatrists at its best.

A great quote from the same man is:

“We are in 1994. For ten years I had been running a research unit specialising in chronic fatigue and the problems of people who are tired all the time”.

So after 10 years of denial there it is, he is always talking about people who are Tired all the time. Well as we all know, they have a problem but it is not ME. But that is professor CBT for you, who denies anything and everything.

Just read the article by MARGARET WILLIAMS, and don't fall off your chair when the same CBT fanatic denies the existence of GWS (Gulf War Syndrome) yet so far at least 400 soldiers have died of this condition.....

So as you know I am bedridden due to this non existent illness, and I can't be at the RSM delusional conference of deniability, so I decided to do a Dr Enlander and write the Dean of the RSM the following email:

"Dear Dr Stradding,

On your site it says you are organising a conference about CFS at the end of April.

“The aim of this meeting is to take a broad look at chronic fatigue syndrome, examining its nature and definition, pathophysiology”.

1. If I look at the list of speakers, I am delighted to see that you have banned everybody who knows that ME is a neurological illness as defined by the WHO since 1969.

Now which CBT psychiatrist will mention this? NICE didn’t in their ME guideline….
So would it not have been a good idea to have a neurologist like Dr Chaudhuri at your conference??

2. Who will mention that in 1988 the psychiatrists changed the name from ME to CFS, then in 1991 they changed the criteria to tiredness only, and they created a completely new disease, or should I say a wastebasket.

They introduced names like Yuppie Flu and Chronic Fatigue, and now many doctors believe ME is about tiredness and they think ME, or CFS as they want to call it, equals TATT. And as you know, we as doctors hate TATT (Tired All The Time).

3. That ME is something completely different was demonstrated for example by Dr Ramsay, the infectious disease specialist, in 1979 when he published a paper that demonstrated muscle abnormalities.

Now which psychiatrist will mention this and the fact that we can now demonstrate mitochondrial dysfunction in ME patients very easily with a blood test?? And the worse the test results the worse the ME. And I realise that CBT is so good that we can actually talk the mitochondria back to normal…

4. Who will mention that ME patients are not allowed to be blood donors???

5. Who will mention that you can DIE from ME??? And no, I am not talking about suicide, I am talking about dying from ME like for example Sophia Mirza a few years ago. Did she die from false illness beliefs, malingering, suggestibility or was it just plain laziness??

6. Who will mention all the genetic abnormalities in ME patients as found by Dr Kerr??? And yes I know, a few sessions of CBT and the genes are back to normal.

7. Who will mention the fact that the MRC has turned down all research into the cause of ME and finding a cure and only sponsors CBT psychiatrists???

8. Who will mention that in children ME is now the main reason to be off school long term??? Would it not have been a good idea to have a paediatrician like Dr Speight at your conference who is the most experienced ME paediatrician in the UK???

9. Who will mention the fact that at least 25% of ME patients are bedridden and many are tube fed???

10. And even more important, who will mention Dr Stein’s excellent psychiatric ME guidelines that demonstrate that CBT is useless, or the Canadian ME guidelines that do the same???

11. And who will mention the recent article by two Dutch psychiatrists in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, April 2007, who stated that:
"The psychiatric and psychosocial hypothesis DENIES the existence of CFS as a disease entity."

And that "In CFS cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is most commonly used. This therapy, however, appears to be INEFFECTIVE in most patients.”

Which is not surprising as CBT is just as effective for a neurological illness as watching grass grow…. which is a lot cheaper actually…

So why has the RSM, a Society of Medicine as I always thought, not lived up to its own conclusion of 1978:

“it is hoped that as a result of the meeting, sufferers from this miserable illness will, in future, be more sympathetically managed.”

The only thing that the CBT psychiatrists have done is made the suffering of ME patients worse and now you at the RSM are kindly hosting their yearly psychiatric conference.

But please remember that you or your loved ones can get ME as well and then you will realise, just as I have learned the hard way, that CBT is all about denying ME as a severe and debilitating physical illness, and that you are now supporting them, and denying ME just like they have done with MS, TBC and many other physical illnesses in the past.

But let me add that I hope that you or your loved once will not get ME as I now know what a delightful business this is.

Kind regards,

Dr Speedy, a GP bedridden with ME.