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To me this seems suspiciously like confusing heightened awareness of a problem, or inability to treat it early, with cause. People who seem likely to be diagno
by fatfingerd 3y ago
To me this seems suspiciously like confusing heightened awareness of a problem, or inability to treat it early, with cause.
People who seem likely to be diagnosed seem less likely to happily sleep for 12 hours a day for a few weeks after a viral infection, more likely to blame themselves for their state and more stressed by awareness that something is wrong.
Naturally, if a rich layabout has the problem anyway, then we can look to their childhood and find at least one trauma.
- whimsicalism 3y ago> To me this seems suspiciously like confusing heightened awareness of a problem, or inability to treat it early, with cause. Heightened awareness of a problem can be related to the cause - these are not distinct. The comorbidities of ME/CFS make it look very similar to known psychosomatic conditions. Researchers who explore psychological-heritable causes have been forced to stop due to death threats.
- fatfingerd 3y agoSure but if you look at male outcomes, we are clearly ignoring a lot of real health problems that are deadly, so 66% of males ignoring a less than deadly problem that allows 8 hours of work a day seems more likely than a lot of female hypochondriacs to me.
- whimsicalism 3y agoThis argument could be applied to any condition with psychosomatic indicators. Your suggestion that somatically-involved conditions aren't 'real' is offensive and what gives rise to the stigma that means we can't talk about this in the first place.
- fatfingerd 3y agoThere's no telling what's real once you are willing to go down that route, least of all a doctors opinion. If someone stops displaying symptoms that could just be a non blinded doctor and a placebo. I think the offense is going there without any double blinded science and then relying on non reproducible fields of research to annoy the patient.