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Training video from the British Psychiatric profession to 'teach' family Doctors (GP) that ME/CFS patients are mentally ill, are not suffering from a neurological/immune disease, and can thus be 'treated' with psychological interventions such as behavioural therapy (CBT), Graded Exercise (GE) and Pacing. --------------------------------------- Claims made in Part 2 of this video about ME/CFS include: 1) Doctors should avoid telling patients they are psychologically ill - to reduce alienation and 'arguments'. 2) Patients may think (that Doctors think) they have an undiagnosed cause to their illness, which in a patients mind is 'a bit silly'. 3) Telling a patient the phrase 'you seem to fulfil the criteria of CFS' is enough to diagnose them with CFS and will 'satisfy' the patient well enough. 4) Use a practical approach by using 'activity scheduling' - because an ME/CFS patient 'worries' about undertaking an activity and then 'feeling' they have to rest after. 5) ME/CFS patients have got themselves 'caught up in a vicious circle' which has lead them to become physically disabled. By altering these thought processes, patients will improve. 6) Tiredness and 'fatigue' are genuine, but patients need to undertake activity that will make them feel bad. Patients should increase activity even if they feel really bad - because as long as it is done in a 'structured' way it will help. 7) By 'gradually building up' activity it does not have the same effect on patients symptoms. 8) Takes just months of gradually building back up activity levels - to recover from ME/CFS. ' 9) Patients have got into a 'habit' of avoiding activity - so now symptoms are controlling them, rather than the patient being in control of the symptoms. 10) Patients need to write down hour by hour what they are doing in a 'detailed diary' - and report back to the doctor with these levels of activity. These activities are then 're-ordered' to become more consistent to break ME/CFS patients associations between symptoms and activity. 11) ME/CFS patients need to distinguish between factors that contributed to the 'problem in the first place' and factors that 'keep the problem going once it's started' - which are reducing activity because they are fearful of continuing activity incase it makes them worse. 12) Consistent sleep patterns have a 'dramatic' effect on ME/CFS patients symptoms and quickly start to feel less tired. --------------------------------------- N:B Although dated, this video is still distributed in 2008. N:B In 2002, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer for England/Wales) said: ''Patients suffer their symptoms being ignored, not being taken seriously, labelled as hypochondriacs, urged to pull themselves together.''''CFS/ME should be classed alongside other diseases such as multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease''. --------------------------------------- Question: How then, is the psychiatric profession legally allowed to produce information like this - if they have been ordered by higher powers not to? Answer: Because this is what you think, because that would be the moral decision - to STOP disinformation that harms/kills patients. Politics is never moral. Public statements by Government ministers mean nothing - if they have a lot to lose by revealing the cause of ME/CFS. ME/CFS is a politicised illness because the Government know the cause. (Most likely Pesticides).