Patients with chronic Lyme disease can now be treated with long term antibiotics thanks to a new bill protecting doctors

By JENNIFER KEEFE, Friday, June 17, 2011:

jkeefe@fosters.com

DOVER — New Hampshire residents suffering from chronic Lyme disease will no longer have to worry about finding a doctor who will treat with long-term antibiotics.

A bill, HB 295, that states doctors are free to treat Lyme disease with long-term antibiotics and cannot be punished by the Board of Medicine because of such prescriptions was passed Thursday.

The bill's prime sponsor Gary Daniels, R-Milford, said the bill is an important step in helping both patients and doctors as it acknowledges chronic Lyme disease is a real ailment.

The text of the bill reads, "No licensee may be subject to disciplinary action solely for prescribing, administering, or dispensing long-term antibiotic therapy for a patient clinically diagnosed with Lyme disease, if diagnosis and treatment has been documented and monitored in the physician's medical record for that patient."

Daniels said Thursday, "The problem we were encountering, and it seems to be a nationwide trend, is there are two standards for treatment and there seems to be favoritism over one standard that basically says there's no such thing as chronic Lyme disease."

He added that typically, if people have Lyme disease for longer than the four week average associated with the disease, they're instead treated for other diseases such as fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome.

"There can be such a thing as chronic Lyme disease and it can be treatable with long-term antibiotics," Daniels said. Read more>>

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Dr Speedy’s 2009 CBT CALENDAR

Ean Procter and ME ...

Some say that Ean was thrown into the swimming pool to drown his disease or his false illness beliefs for that matter. But as he couldn’t move they had to jump into the water and rescue him.

Others say that he was just having Hydrotherapy and that Ean was at no danger whatsoever at any stage.

All we know is that 001/7, our master blaster of espionage with ME, has just mailed ME a picture of the new State of the Art Attack Hydrotherapy room at the Magic CBT Kingdom and as you can see, it is a very safe place indeed ……….

CBT and vegetables ...

The RSM and asking critical questions ...

Professor CBT and the RSM ...

Earlier today at the MAGIC CBT KINGDOM ...

Exclusive picture of the psychiatric RSM Meeting ...

A preview to ...

A preview to the psychiatric convention at the RSM ...

Physicians and their so called ME conference ...

As many people might know the Royal College of physicians or whatever they are called are launching a conference at the end of April about CFS/ME, well at least they say they do. If you look at the programm and the list of speakers you'll soon realise that you have arrived at the Malingering conference for delusional psychiatrists.

But what is new after the NICE Giddiliner was launched a few months ago. It must be really great as a psychiatrist to be at the centre of attention even though you are talking about something you have no Fukuda clue about, furthermore it is a neurological illness, well at least it was when we talked about ME, and then you are talking to physicians, so not neurologists etc.

And I can understand their interest, ELEVEN million and counting, so they must hurry to GET a piece of the cake.

Now we have been saying many things for years but one of them is how appallingly bad the CBT-ism articles are. Apparently that is the norm in medicine, yes that is right.

And let me just quote Jeanne Lenzer, a medical investigative journalist from one of the latests BMJ's:

"Firstly, there’s the problem of publication bias, the tendency for positive studies to get published and negative studies to be filed away in a drawer. In the case of antidepressants, a 2008 analysis by Erick Turner and colleagues published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that only 8% of antidepressant trials with negative findings were reported as negative, while positive trials were reported as such 97% of the time."

So studies which say a medication or CBT for that matter do not work are not being reported ..... they are destroyed so that no one will be able to read them....

She continues by saying, "a 1999 study showing that in five top medical journals the authors’ conclusions as stated in journal abstracts either were not supported or were contradicted by data given in the body of the article in 18% to 68% of articles," and yes, my brain automatically thinks about the CBT articles and all the horribilities and mistakes in those.......

It also means that the editors of those magazines were either asleep or on the golf courses or both.....

But there are more interesting things down the ME horizon, you see one stress doctor is saying there is something wrong with a part of our brain, the amygdala, and what do we need this tiny area for, well we have found from animal research that "Monkeys without amygdalas have difficulty learning to associate a light-signal with an electric shock -- and also have difficulty associating a neutral stimulus with a food reward. It has been suggested that the amygdala functions to associate sensation with reward or punishment."

Or as WIKIPEDIA said: it performs "a primary role in the processing and memory of emotional reactions."

So yes, the basis of ME as prescribed by Dr Ramsay or the Canadian ME Guidelines; goodness gracious ME.

But he has more up his sleeve, he mentions that his work is not peer reviewed, a bit like the CBT articles, as the peer reviewer is professor CBT himself, but at least this doc says so, but then he can talk the abnormal brain part back to normal, now, where have I heard that nonsense before ???

Reminds me of ....

Deliberate Deceit or Inexcusable Ignorance?

AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTIN J. WALKER by Louise Mclean

"Skewed came out at the end of October 2003 and it’s a book about the way that a small group of psychiatrists have tried to control and redefine the illness of ME.” Now the reason why I mention this book again is because it is not only that good, it is also because of some silliness that happened in Drowning Street recently. So please read on.

“What this particular group of psychiatrists have done is to erase ME and subsume it into a whole category of illnesses which they have termed Chronic Fatigue. What was once a very specific illness, with very specific signs and aetiology, has now been incorporated into a massive group of symptoms with one set of treatments being given to all sufferers.

A moratorium has been called on diagnostic testing so that there is going to be no further research, in Britain anyway, into what actually caused ME or what ME is. One of the treatments now prescribed for CFS is graded exercise therapy to get people fit and out of their fatigue.

Especially if you are one of the 25% immobilised sufferers, in considerable pain, why would you want to get involved in graded exercise? Some psychiatrists say that fatigue is all in the mind and the patient has got to be able to conquer it. They prescribe GET along with ‘cognitive behaviour therapy’. The idea is to get rid of false illness beliefs.

SKEWED deals with ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Gulf War Syndrome. It uses them all as examples of how the psychiatric argument is used to cloak any research into organic aetiology. The last thing the chemical companies in Britain or America want to do is admit such a thing as chemical illness because it means a massive liability.”

Now since the politicians have decided to ignore the WHO it has become even more important to read the book and GET a look inside the minds of psychiatrists who are using their brains not as a doctor should do nor as they swore when saying the magic words of the Hippocratic oath…. But since, as we know, that has not only been replaced by the HIPPOCRITIC OATH but also by their wish to GET rich over the backs of their patients.

A very good idea if you are a doctor; and if you don’t believe me, than have a look at the recent article by MARGARET WILLIAMS after the British Government said no to the WHO classification of ME as advised by their friends from the CBT MAGIC KINGDOM who have never seen a person with ME in their life. Well let me correct myself, they saw one once and they threw him in the pool to drown him.

Or was it to drown his false illness beliefs, anyway, they had to jump in and rescue him. Did they learn anything from it???

Yes, how to tell porkies and GET rich and be mean in between. Now the interesting thing is of you read MARGARET’S article that more and more psychologists are starting to realise that this CBT business for ME is all a whole lot of hot air ballooning or balony. I mean sure, you can decork a bottle of wine with the tongue of a well trained CBT fanatic but that is about it. I know the devil is in the details but even the devil is scared of professor CBT and his illustrious gang of porkpie telling delusionists.

From that point of view the LOST VOICES PROJECT by InvestinME is a fantastic project and when it is finished it should be presented to the politicians before one of their own children or loved ones GET ME, it should be presented to the GOBSART fellows and maybe also to all the CBT professor although I realise that that will be calcified as severe harassment and whoever presents it to them is at great risk of being locked up in GETanomo so not a great prosprectus.

Now before I put the link to MARGARET’s article here, let me just put a few quotes from it in my BLOG and amazingly just see that quite a few psychologists have spoken out a long time before the GOBSART Academy came out of the closet with their useless degradation of ME.

There have been a number of articles about the effectiveness of CBT in the last 1-2 years or so and they are staggering and are basically saying what we have been telling the docs etc for years, but as we all know, when we got ME, we not only lost our health and in many cases our independence but we also lost our minds.

Well at least according to delusional psycho ramblers who keep plugging the same old gooblediegoek and nonsense on a daily base. And the reason for that is simple, if they don’t people might start to think again and say hey wait a minute, these people were fit and well all their life, were sporty, didn’t see their GP’s unless it was absolutely necessary and to say now that they have suddenly become malingerers, heart sink patients, professional hypochondriacs and hysterics is to put it mildly odd.

So they have to keep on telling the same porkies every day, it is that simple. You see, otherwise a normal human being, let alone a reasonable doc would not believe delusional psychiatrists……but this way their brains are in sleep mode as that is what happens if you get over flown and drowned by lectures and articles and other CBT nonsense.

Now I have even heard a rumour that NASA is using CBT, yes really. Something to do with some sort of Computer Based Training on a flight simulator and even if you want to drive your motorbike on many circuits you have to follow a course of CBT, Compulsory Basic Training that is, so you know when to brake, when to turn left and when to turn right and so. A bit like getting the basics right before you start to do something. So Professor CBT please take note ....

And yes I have asked these motorbike blokes if they could start to instruct the GOBSART fellows and the CBT fanatics the same thing about the real horrible Me but they were afraid that their bikes would start to rust after being talked to by professor CBT and his mates….

Now, I was even silly to type CBT into Google and look what happened, the NACBT, that is the National Association of CBT people, appeared and what did they say about CBT in the first sentence or so on their website, absolutely amazing, just have a read:

“Cognitive-behavioral therapy does not exist as a distinct therapeutic technique.”

So it doesn’t even exist, so more porkies from the delusionists….. and I bet no one has told the politicians yet…..

Now here is Margaret’s article, or I should say a few quotes from “Deliberate Deceit or Inexcusable Ignorance?”

4th March 2008:The UK Government’s response of 27th February 2008 to a petition containing 8,481 signatures asking that myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) be accepted in the UK in the same category as in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases was predictable and odd really if you know that in 1988 they passed a private members Bill acknowledging the WHO classification…...

The recent GIBSON ENQUIRY said this about it:"In Britain, there has been a clear historical bias towards research into the psychosocial explanations of CFS/ME. This is despite Parliament recognising ME as a physical illness in a Private Members Bill, the ME Sufferers Bill, in 1988.”

It also said that “The WHO (World Health Organisation) in Geneva holds an internationally recognised classification that ME is a neurological disease."

But as usual the GOBSART mentality and Profesor CBT and his interests were more inportant than patients with a debilitating illness, so nothing new under the sun you would think, well, I would say, just read on because …

“Clinical Psychology Forum 162”, June 2006 (i.e. over a year before the publication of its Guideline), in which internationally renowned psychologists exposed the reality that psychological therapies do not actually work and may in fact harm patients who submit to them.

“Reflections on the practice of clinical psychology” by Bob Diamond (pp 3- 8):

“Clinical psychology is part of mental health services that, on occasions, contribute more to people’s distress than provide possible benefits. There are plenty of testaments to suggest that the iatrogenic effect of mental health services contribute to the ongoing damage to people’s lives.

There’s plenty of evidence showing positive outcomes to psychotherapy to be much more modest than our profession has so far acknowledged. We should ensure that our work is based in reality and not premised on prevailing popular, even fashionable, concepts. Whilst specific psychological approaches may continue to offer some help to some people, some of the time, such claims should be more modestly made”.

“Implications for practice” by David Smail (pp 17 – 20):“Evidence for the effectiveness of psychological therapies is far weaker than can be considered acceptable. Largely to avoid these difficulties, clinical psychology has tended to opt for dogma rather than truth.”

“The trouble with psychotherapy” by Paul Maloney (pp 29 – 33):“The supposedly sound evidence base for the effectiveness of the psychological therapies may be far more questionable than is widely supposed. The enduring reality is that the psychotherapy outcome literature offers precious little support for any of the above notions. This is an observation that seems to have been consistently ignored.”

There is also the recent Dutch report of February 2008 by Drs MP Koolhaas, H de Boorder and Professor Elke van Hoof which comes to unambiguous conclusions about CBT…..:

“A striking outcome is that the number of those respondents who were in paid employment or who were studying while taking part in CBT was adversely affected. The negative outcome in paid employment was statistically significant.”

“Overall, CBT for ME/CFS does not improve patients’ well-being: More patients report deterioration of their condition rather than improvement.”

“Our conclusion is that the claims in scientific publications about the effectiveness of this therapy, based on trials in strictly controlled settings within universities, has been overstated and are therefore misleading”. (conclusion by Professor Van Hoof et al).

And to answer Margaret’s question, Deliberate Deceit or Inexcusable Ignorance?

It is pretty obvious what the answer is wouldn’t you say, but be careful professor CBT and his blue vans are always around the corner trying to section more PWME and submit them to torture treatment….

Because destroying one more life of someone with ME is not important to delusional psychiatrists who stand to loose all their primary and secondary gains if the world start to realise what ME really is, very sad but true…

YUPPIE FLU ...

So-called ME treatments ...........

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING .....

TALKY TALKY THERAPIES AND HOW YOU INVENT THEM

I wasn’t planning to do this post, I had something else in mind.

But then I changed my mind and you will shortly see why.

I was always taught that the S-word was wrong but sugar was fine. Mercedes has tried to give us the S-class but sugar still sounds better, and the same applies to the S-max.

I stick to sugar if you don’t mind Mr Ford.

We all know that we have the f-word as well. Well, I have never learned an alternative so I had to stick to sugar.

Or be polite and say thank you instead.

However, someone mailed me a different word and I like that very much.

We all know we have the worthless London, Oxford, RCPH and other ME criteria.

But the NICE’est are the ones by, is it Mr Fukuda or is that a place??

So when I saw a post on the BBC message board, I responded to it by writing:

“Dear speedyjohnmartin,

Your lesson will be discussed at the next board meeting of Denton CID. I have however suggested that they change the **** part in:

"Police Officer- "Why don't you fukuda off and stop wasting our time.""

And detective inspector Frost has assured me he will make sure this excellent lesson will be discussed.

He suggested to ask you to be a teacher and instructor on one of their next training sessions about dealing with psychiatrists and other mental health issues.

I hope that is okay."

The funny thing is, he responded by using the same word, and his posting wasn’t removed at all.

But anyway, I realise that the BBC webmaster is a webmaster, and hasn’t heard of all the worthless ME criteria.

And who can blame him. I hadn’t either until I was attacked by a group of suggestibility villains who used GET, CBT and exercise phobia to intimidate ME until I fell ill.

The funny thing is though if you look on the BBC message board, there is all sorts of interesting language, interesting posts advertising weird and wonderful therapies, and people who get offended if they say they had ME for many years and then someone points out that if they were cured in a day or so, by taking a cold shower three times a day for a week or a month, that they didn’t have ME, they get irate.

I would think, great I have my life back, but these people are angry because we take their disease away.

Now, if someone could take my ME away, they can wrap it, present it as the best present of all times in the KINGDOM or do whatever they want with it.

The other thing is, how on earth can you come up with cold shower therapy for ME??

If you are a scientist, or you say you are, this must be the moment that you think EUREKA, I get the Nobel prize for fantasy, or was it science???

And how on earth is a medical journal interested in publishing this utter nonsense, let alone how did it pass the editor???

Or was he playing golf with his GOBSART friends as well???

Do we live in a BIGGGG extra large GOBSART community or so???

This cold shower business is another example of someone who has never ever seen a patient with ME, let alone severe ME.

I can’t stand on my legs for five minutes because of the severe pain, a bit like someone is sticking a thousand knives in them and pulling my muscles apart at the same time, let alone tolerate the noise of a shower for that long.

I have tried E-414’s device to put the shower on MUTE but the device doesn’t work for showers yet.

I must say I got a very interesting email this moring from 001/7, you know our double oo one seven, our former 007 with ME.

Or I should say, from his boss, ICD-93,3. She is a lady as a matter of fact, they couldn’t call her M, as that is her counterpart at MI-6, and ICD-93,3 works for ME-6.

I always wondered about her name, I mean why not just plain ICD or 93, or boss.

But apparently the 93,3 is because it took her 93,3 months to be exact to shake her CBT virus back into the Thames, or wherever it belongs.

And the ICD bit stands for her name, she was born as Inge Carla Denise and her parents insisted on using ALL THREE names to the delight of her friends, her school and Inge Carla Denise herself.

How could they know that she would GET-ICD 93,3 LATER on in life???

Actually, now you mention it, her father was the great grandfather of Albus Dimblebee, who was the grandmaster of wizardy in the times that Albert Potter was still a seed in the ocean.

So he did have some magical wand visionary powers.

And if he would still be alive, he would be the man in charge of the kingdom created by ME and UHUM.

UHUM is a large insurance company, not to be mistaken by UNUM.

UHUM has the strange philosophy of helping their clients when they fall ill.

They are not master blasters of malingeritis, a very contagious disease, spread by mouth from psychiatrist to psychiatrist on a daily base.

They don’t want to make big profits, they just need to be able to make ends meet. And it actually works.

No silly lawsuits because people who are bedbound were deemed fit to go to work and than big lawsuits costing millions of pounds in payouts.

Because whatever you think of the Americans, they love their dollars, and who can BRAME them??

Oh, and if you want to take a cold shower, COLD SHOWER three times a day that is, I would seriously contemplate the lightning therapy as well.

This is a three day course, very intense, so again, they have no idea what ME really is like, of standing on the roof of your house, or any house for that matter, in a thunderous situation.

You carry a metal stick in your hand in the hope that lightning will strike and cure your ME.

I think by talking your mitochondria, you know the Nuclear power STATIONS in our muscles and other cells, back into business. Or the viruses out of them.

Or it might also be striking them with thousands of Volt and so basically burning all foreign visitors in your cells and body to charcoal.

A bit like a BBQ where the host didn’t know that we don’t like salmonella but we don’t like charcoaled meat either.

But anyway, don’t try this lightning yourself back into life thing I just mentioned, it might cure you but it might also kill you.

If you do want to spend your money, why not spend it on the ONE CLICK APPEAL to get some sense into our GOBSART Institute of feigned Excellence.

Or otherwise donate some to MERESEARCH and Dr Vance Spence and his team. Might not cure you now, but if you REALLY have ME, nor will all those wishy washy talky therapies.

Have a look at message 177, will give you some valuable insight into the mickey therapy before you spend hundreds of pounds on talking yourself back to ME.

CAUSE OF ME FOUND, SO THEY SAY

LIFE with this suggestibility virus has become very interesting I must say.

Some even think that being able to write one BLOG a day, WHILE LYING IN BED, means you can do your work as a doctor in a busy GP surgery.

And I wish they were right.

If you read my BLOG you will notice I make mistakes.

Some are just plain silly, some I wouldn’t make if my brain was functioning at my usual level because then I could reread my BLOG properly and some I could filter out with the spelling control.

But the Blogger one doesn’t always wake up. Or on other occasions I just forget to use it.

But before you can see why going back to work is impossible at the moment; unfortunately that is, let’s have a look at what I can do at present.

I have to wait till the house is quiet, and go downstairs to get something to eat. But when I have managed to get down the stairs, which is even worse than going up, I have to lie down for an hour before I can sit at the table and eat.

Then I have to lie down again, and so every hour or so I get up, walk the few yards to the toilet and/or the kitchen, and then I need to rest again.

Depending on if I have to climb the stairs once or twice a day, the last will have me in the most amazing pains for days, I can also walk a few yards outside.

But all in all, I am lying down about 23 out of 24 hours. Maybe even more. And that seven days a week.

So there you have me, Mr Superglue.

So if I get up in the morning in my current state, and get ready to go to work, well, by the time I am downstairs, I need to lie down for an hour.

I still need my breakfast and then I need another hour before I can do something again.

If I would then go to work, I would not be able to get there, as I simply can’t sit long enough to get there.

Furthermore the traffic and the car etc are too noisy. And I don’t have enough strength and power to do it all.

And then there is the problem of actually walking from the car to my consulting room. Even sitting in a wheelchair would be impossible as I can’t sit.

Doing a consultation lying down is difficult, even more so, as I always have the laptop volume in the mute mode and a surgery is a noisy place.

Then there is the minute detail of seeing patients. Children might be boisterous etc. But it might also be someone with a back problem, and doing a hip examination or a straight leg test are impossible as the leg is too heavy.

Then I need to write a script, but we have this old fashioned printer, noisy as there is no tomorrow, which likes to eat the prescriptions instead of printing them and spitting them out.

But even a modern, new state of the art printer would not solve the problem of sitting, getting there etc.

I can’t walk away or so from the noise, and I can’t sit or stand long enough to take a history and examine a patient with whatever problem they present.

To be able to go back to work, my noise intolerance needs to be a lot less, and I need to be able to sit for more than five or ten minutes. It is that simple.

But apparently, all that it comes down to, they tell me, is my motivation.

Or I should say, a lack of it. Yeah right.

Would they say the same if someone with MS can’t walk or stand?? I know they used to…

Have I given up hope that one day, soon I hope, I can go back to work???

No absolutely not.

But now is just impossible. Just like driving a car, which I actually love as a petrol head. And I know there are many new and exiting cars out there which I would love to see for real.

But all I can do at present is remain optimistic and use my COOL BLOGGING THERAPY, and my GRADED LAUGHTER THERAPY, to keep my spirits up.

Together with help and support from others, and supporting emails and comments, as I can’t even do my own shopping etc.

Not to mention the fact what sort of impact it has on my loved ones.

Really nice this suggestibility virus.

But there is hope and help is looking very good indeed.

Double oo one seven, 001/7, our master of espionage, who works for ME-6 as you might know, has a friend in the basement of ME-6, who listens to the elusive name of E-414. Yeah, my first thoughts were of artificial colourings and so as well, but apparently he is the main ENGINEER at ME-6.

At the moment he is working on a remote control with an i-pod sort of thingy build in. Not to play music, but to make life easier for people like ME. You see, the idea of the device is to be able to shut people up.

Not in the licence to kill sort of way, but by just hitting the mute button almost all sound will disappear and everybody will be quiet. Amazing technology.

But E-414 has more interesting features in this remote which is still in the early stages of design, he has told ME.

The device can also work as a sort of time traveller, so travelling to and from work will take a few seconds, instead of half an hour, an hour or even more, depending on where you work. And so that will dramatically reduce the time I waste sitting, which is near impossible right now.

Furthermore E-414, is hard at work to make this device so good, that even CBT magic wands stop in mid air.

Better still, it will help to find the cause and hopefully a cure for ME, and many other diseases, as it can do all sorts of amazing stuff.

The micro chip he uses, is so small, as these technical blokes actually keep on developing new things as they don’t understand the adagio that we know it all, and so this new chippie, is almost invisible to the naked eye, and so the days of the submarine, yellow maybe, that will float through our bodies on its way to destroy evil cells, viruses and what have you, is getting nearer.

E-414 also informed ME why the GOBSART fellows don’t like the Internet.

E said, it is very simple. You see, they think a search engine is to search for lost property, and they are of the opinion that that is not the case with ME. And for once I was going to say they are right… but they aren’t.

You see, I have lost my health, so I would classify that as a lot more than lost property.

Apparently they don’t like GOOGLE, as they think we call them that, and that means bananas if you think about it.

The same applies to that new bloke on the block that listens to the name of TECHNORATI. A sort of technical appliance that can sing. Or was that Pavarotti who died mysteriously around the time TECHNORATI started to sing his songs??

The last one they don’t like is YAHOO.

In their simple minds, don’t you forget about ME, was a big hit, many years before this suggestibility virus found its way into my system.

Their idea is that we shout YAHOO after we have seen their CBT friends. The trouble is we don’t as, well you know why.

So now they don’t want to use Yahoo. Furthermore, broadband, and all that stuff doesn’t exist in NHS land, so how on earth are they going to download a file on a normal land line??

So really, there is no way they could have known about the Canadian and South Australian guidelines, let alone off Dr Stein and her great work.

But E-414 has also told me the following, very interesting story.

No, he hasn’t made that one up, a friend of him told him that story, when he was bedbound with ME, as all people who work at ME-6, know what ME means and entails, contrary to many so called experts who walk around as if it is HALLOWEEN EVERY DAY of the year, waving their CBT wands at anybody and everybody.

“One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as
the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.

At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.

He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.

Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

The donkey later came back and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died from septic shock.”

Oh and for all of you who believe in exercise phobia and suggestibility, going to work, and sticking to a schedule to run a marathon, is a heck of a lot easier than being Mr Superglue etc.

Before I shut up, I want to share a comment with you, that I received via email after yesterday’s BLOG, and just read it and you will see that this COOL BLOGGING THERAPY is so much better and more cost effective than silly magic wand therapy, it is unbelievable. So thanks for the following email.

“....the journal for pregnant red ants..... that has me in stitches....as does the pic -this graded laughter therapy works a treat....just when i needed it most.”

And as you can tell from this blog today, much appreciated, just when I needed it most as well.

Don't you forget about ME, or as Mr NICE would say:

LISTENING TO YOUR BODY 001/7, IS TOTALLY WRONG

Well, it was one of those days, you know those ME days, were you think you can do something, but your body tells you NO.

In the CBT world they would say, don’t listen to your body, you don’t know what you feel, and what you feel is wrong or not there or whatever other interesting ideas they have about ME.

However 001/7 is used to listening to his body. The secret service has told him so many times to do that, that it has become second nature to him.

On this day though, he had done too much. And he was knackered. The trouble was, he was too far from home to have a rest. So what to do???

He was rolling around in pain, couldn’t walk anymore and his brain was going into mental shutdown any minute, a sort of meltdown in your head, Chernobyl, but then a bit smaller.

So he had to think on his feet. The solution was actually quite simple and staring him in the face.

He was sneaking around in the CBT KINGDOM, and part of it is a hospital. Well they say it is anyway.

They can’t diagnose things there, but they have plenty of empty beds as people with ME don’t come near the place.

So double oo one seven, 001/7, our master blaster of espionage decided to take the first available one.

He still couldn’t sleep for hours due to these non existent pains, but at least he could lie down.

When he woke up, he was in the TOP DOG’s room with golden tabs, golden whatever you want, and a gigantic picture of the man himself.

Looking down on the world as that is his specialty.

However, he had clearly been going over his photo albums from the past, but he obviously had been in a hurry to write the next episode of the ME soap, for who knows what magazine this time.

Might be the Journal for Car mechanics, but it might also be the one for pregnant red ants, you never know with this TOP DOG.

However, the picture 001/7 found was absolutely amazing, as you can see for yourself, and it explained a lot.

The TOP DOG had tried to earn himself a BOB or two, and when that didn’t work out, he invented that useless talk therapy adventure, but managed to sell it for ELEVEN MILLION BOB to his beer drinking friends at the GOBSART Institute of Excellence.

And that all, because he failed this simple question in a TV show.

Just like he failed his maths, and his literacy. If only he had managed those in the past, what a great world it would have been.