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I'm relating all this to explain why I think it's ludicrous to suggest that this illness is hysterical. I don't know anything about the validity of the researc

by naner 15y ago

I'm relating all this to explain why I think it's ludicrous to suggest that this illness is hysterical. I don't know anything about the validity of the research being done in this case. That being said, when people are talking about mental illnesses they aren't referring to hysteria. That is not a mental illness.

cfshacker 15y ago
They are in this case. I think it's probably helpful to distinguish between "old school" mental illness (hysteria, neurosis etc) and "modern" mental illness (e.g. how depression, bipolar etc are treated these days). Wessely has long talked about CFS/ME as neurosis, or suggested mass hysteria with a modern angle. In Wessely's own words on a related illness "Sufferers from mysterious condition that lie outside conventional medical practice no longer consider themselves to be oppressed by spirits and demons but by mystery gases, toxins and viruses. This is particularly visible in the changing nature of mass hysteria." http://www.cfsinfo.be/Documentatie/AA%20%20Strijd%20classificatie%20ME/Views%20of%20Simon%20Wesseley.htm http://www.cfsinfo.be/Documentatie/AA%20%20Strijd%20classifi...