Individual quotes
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Very severe (bedbound, unable to do basic care)
- Ill for
- 10 years
- Published
- Undated
Summary
CBT and graded exercise therapy, delivered under what he calls a false-illness-beliefs model, are credited by a physician with worsening rather than helping his ME. He had been ill for more than a decade when a major relapse, which he attributes to GET pursued under this treatment model, left him bedridden and totally dependent on others for care. He argues the approach ignores evidence of ME as a physical disease involving immune dysfunction. He reports no benefit from the therapy, and the relapse it caused has not resolved. No further recovery is reported.
What they credit
Credits CBT and psychotherapy, Graded exercise / graded activity.
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