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   by 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
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   by cfshacker 15y ago

   Thanks! Generally speaking, I think you have to understand the nature of "mental" illness that's being discussed. Depression, for example, is taken seriously as a "mental" illness but is quite comfortably discussed in medical terms (hence S
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   by cfshacker 15y ago

   Well, you wouldn't say someone with AIDS had problems with "Stress, bad diet, lack of social interaction", for example. Yet Dr. Nancy Klimas got interested in CFS patients when she found they were sicker than her AIDS patients. (Of course,
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   by cfshacker 15y ago

   "I still think it's a mental illness." Why? What does "mental illness" mean to you? You go on to say it's a diagnosis of exclusion, and you don't know for sure what you had/have -- isn't that the point? I guess we need to be careful with ou
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   by cfshacker 15y ago

   Psychological theories for CFS have been around for decades and have yielded very little by way of testable hypotheses or treatment, despite millions of dollars spent on research. Wessley's highly controversial views and work have been subj
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   by cfshacker 15y ago

   Rubbish. The reason CFS hasn't seen more mainstream research is a chicken-and-egg problem of having no specific angle to research, therefore research isn't done, therefore there's no specific angle to research. When the XMRV stuff broke the