“The evidence of inflammation in people with ME/CFS is important because the incremental aerobic exercise recommended by the Wessely School and encapsulated in NICE’s Clinical Guideline 53 is contra-indicated in cases of inflamed and damaged tissue and inevitably results in post-exertional relapse with malaise, which is the cardinal symptom of ME/CFS.” CfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe Cfs Author:Margaret Williams
“For the last 48 years, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) has been formally classified by the World Health Organisation as a neurological disorder but for the last 29 years a group of UK psychiatrists (known as the Wessely School) have denied it exists other than as an aberrant belief; they insist that it is a mental (behavioural) disorder that can be cured by graded exercise and “cognitive re-structuring”.” CfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsNeurological DisorderInvisible Illness StigmaSimon WesselyNeurological ProblemsWessely School Author:Margaret Williams
“people with ME/CFS do not have “fatigue as their main symptom”; they have post-extertional fatigability accompanied by malaise as their main symptom (their voluntary muscles do not work properly and are exquisitely painful after exercise)” FatigueCfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMalaise Author:Margaret Williams