Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Treatment of ME as a psychiatric disease, kills patients

Posted by Creek:

Too many lives have been lost already through the psychiatric mismanagement of ME. Internationally, patients, doctors, researchers, and advocacy organizations are watching and will not stand by and see another ME sufferer consigned to the snake pit of inappropriate classification.

Psychiatric treatment has its place in psychiatric illness, but ME is a neuroimmune disease and its mis-assignment does no favors to the understanding of physical or mental illness.

Treatment of ME as a psychiatric disease, kills patients. Read more>>

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