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Psychiatrists see reasonable adaptations to CFS, label it “cause” and “maladaptation”

By lauredhel on 13 October, 2009

[This post was originally posted at Hoyden About Town on April 27, 2009.] There’s a whole industry that involves measuring the survival techniques and truths of people with CFS, then pointing the finger at them for causing their own illness with their Scientifically! Proven! personality “deficits”. Here’s the latest product of that industry. They took [...]

Posted in blaming, medical practice | Tagged bad science, cfids, cfs, cfs/me, chronic fatigue syndrome, illness, invisible disability, maladaptation, me, misdiagnosis, mislabelling, personality, psychologisation, psychosomatic, research, science

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