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Living with a Long-term Illness: The Facts (The Facts Series)

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Sharpe is well known as one of the junk scientists trying to psychopathologize ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis; aka CFIDS/CFS). He writes in a psychiatry text for physicians of ME (CFS) as neurasthenia. He characterizes it as basically a somatoform disorder with Abnormal Illness Beliefs around inappropriate exercise avoidance. Patently false. There have been over 4,000 articles is peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. Exercise can greatly increase morbidity in ME.
He does not come right out in this book with these demeaning and dangerous remarks he reserves for other physicians in his Psychiatry book. But he does insist that the doctor is the only one who can identify disease and repeats several times that if you have "medically unexplained" illness (he thinks ME is one) that you should really reexamine your avoidance and fear of activity because this is AIB increasing morbidity.