Comments | mind_travel: LP/CBT

mind_travel

LP/CBT

Mar 26, 2007 22:21

"That fact is that people with ME are caught in an irreversible trap of illness/anxiety and stress about the illness/leading to worse illness and back to the stress and so on and so on."

This is completely untrue.

"Wake up and do yourself a favour if you ever want to recover.Unfortunately, it's you who needs to wake up. If only it were this ( Read more... )

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bunny1981 March 26 2007, 21:41:13 UTC

I'd go for disabling. Honestly, everyone is allowed to have it's opinion in my view, but why not think that perhaps different approaches work in different situations for different reasons? And why post anonymously? I feel that is very coward, and only targets to blame someone for the situation.

@The anonymous poster: ME/CFS has different patterns, different cycles and also different diagnostic criterias. There are many reasons why CBT has worked for you. Positive thinking is a great thing, but what you spread here is just pure negative thinking about a person.

mind_travel March 26 2007, 21:57:21 UTC

Thanks v much for your support.

(By the way, for anyone else reading this, bunny1981 was referring to a bit I deleted about disabling anonymous comments. I edited it before I saw this comment, sorry.)

splodgenoodles March 26 2007, 23:00:40 UTC

Hope you don't think I was feeding the troll, but I just posted a reply.

There'll always be a few wankers around.

(The comment has been removed)

mind_travel March 28 2007, 03:54:13 UTC

That's 100% ok with me! thank you :)

splodgenoodles March 28 2007, 12:44:21 UTC

Actually, please may I have a go at it as well?

What I'd like to do is quote the anonymous comment, or parts of it, as jump off points for my own rants. If I did this without linking to you or naming you(I'd just say that this comment turned up on a friend's journal), would you be okay with that and okay with me making it a public post?

And if not, what would you prefer I do?

mind_travel March 29 2007, 05:19:41 UTC

Sure you can, that's absolutely fine. Great in fact! I don't mind if you link to the comment or not, whichever you like is cool with me. Oh, and a public post is fine too. :)

teh_sooz March 27 2007, 08:27:41 UTC

The person's response to that was good though

cooljoules March 27 2007, 08:36:24 UTC

Is LP the Lightening Process? How do you combine it with CBT?! It would be nice to think that people would appreciate that a 'cure' for one person would not necessarily work for everyone :oS

mind_travel March 27 2007, 14:02:48 UTC

"Is LP the Lightening Process?"

Yes.

"How do you combine it with CBT?!"

He or she is saying that they are the same thing. I agree that they probably are pretty similar. But neither will cure M.E.!

"It would be nice to think that people would appreciate that a 'cure' for one person would not necessarily work for everyone :oS"

It would be nice ;) I see two problems.

1) Some people are diagnosed with M.E. when they don't have it (which is amazing considering others of us took years to get a diagnosis!) and then when something like exercise or CBT cures them they claim that it cures M.E.

and 2) M.E. can relapse and remit. It's so easy to attribute your latest improvement or remission on the last treatment that you tried.

Sorry, went on a bit there! Thanks for you comment :o)

cooljoules March 28 2007, 08:19:20 UTC

Don't worry, these treatments are so shrouded in mystery that any info is helpful! I tend to think of ME as a bit like IBS - an umbrella term to cover a wide variety of symptoms that don't fit the criteria for any other illness and can't really be cured, mostly just well managed.