Reblogged from Beastrabban's Weblog:
Experience says it will be a form of crude behavioural abuse,
sorry, help called CBT. We all know how the Nudge Unit has worked before
in ignoring all professional standards about coercion to participate.
CBT has been proven (in published MEDICAL papers) to be worse than
useless for people with long-term illnesses such as arthritis, and
especially fibromyalgia and other chronic immune system problems with
associated fatigue, and depression. The main study showed that for the
first few weeks of CBT all seemed much better in treated group but 10
months later the untreated group – who had been left to manage their own
illness – were in fact much better, more able to cope with pain, and
more had achieved better mental & physical functioning.
The most telling remark came from someone who had been
referred for CBT for fibromyalgia (aka complex regional pain syndrome).
She said that it was tantamount to physical and mental torture, and in
the end she agreed to everything that she was expected to, including
doing exercise programmes that were causing extreme pain & distress,
just so they would sigh her off from the programme. After, she needed
treatment for depression.
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