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Paisley Daily Express Letters.
The Paisley Daily Express has a World Exclusive!
I believe Jeff Holmes's article (Time to end M.E. sufferers=92 hell,
Paisley Daily Express, 4 February 2012 --
http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/renfrewshire-news/local-news-in-renf=
rewshire/paisley-news/2012/02/04/time-to-end-m-e-sufferers-hell-87085-302=
60942/#.Ty_SrkGOirk.twitter)
is the first EVER about M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), in which this
seriously disabling neurological illness is not written off as tiredness
or fecklessness. Nowhere is it said to be synonymous with Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), or any of its variants (CFS/ME, Post Viral
Fatigue etc.), with which M.E. is commonly taken to be interchangeable
and which has been responsible for impeding progress to understanding
and recovery since, at least, 1988. It does not belittle M.E. with a
derisory slang term like 'Yuppie flu,' which erroneously tried to
pigeonhole it when, actually, M.E. affects both sexes, all ages and
social classes, worldwide. Nor does it give any bogus statistics about
numbers of people affected and recovery rates, which are all guesswork;
or raise false hopes of recovery by mentioning unproven therapies that
one might try, which experience and research evidence show to be
disappointingly ineffective and, in some cases, irrecoverably harmful.
It is a first!
It shouldn't have been necessary for anyone to have to clear the decks
of these negative obstacles but M.E. sufferers will be grateful to the
Paisley Express for laying these clean foundations, on which to build.
Thank you, also, to the Scottish Government and, in particular, MSP,
Mary Fee, for representing M.E. as a discrete illness, with a
physiological cause, which has had no serious funding for biomedical
research, in a way people affected by it have never known but, instead,
have been shabbily neglected for decades.
Yours sincerely
drjohngreensmith@mecommunitytrust.org
Dr John H Greensmith
ME Community Trust.org
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