“The most important limitation of [clinical] guidelines is that the recommendations may be wrong... Practices that are sub-optimal from the patient’s perspective may be recommended to help control costs, serve societal needs, or protect special interests (those of doctors…or politicians, for example).” CfsChronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsNhsCfs MeCost CuttingInvisible Illness QuotesIllness StigmaNice GuidelinesSocietal Control Author:Steven H. Woolf
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed ahead of funding restraints and bureaucratic red tape. We need minimum standards of care and treatment agreed and implemented within the NHS to end the current nightmare of the postcode lottery—not just guidelines that can be ignored but actual regulations.” Mental IllnessPsychiatryDissociative Identity DisorderDissociationAbuse SurvivorsPsychotherapyMental Health StigmaTraumatizedDissociative DisorderDissociative DisordersMisdiagnosisNhsRegulationsMental Health ProfessionalsMental Health BiasMental Health SystemMisdiagnosedNational Health ServiceHealth ServiceNice GuidelinesMental Health TreatmentNhs FundingPostcode Lottery Book:Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices Source: Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
“We believe CFS is a biological illness, manifest with complex interlinking between adverse thoughts, moods, emotions and physical symptoms.” Chronic Fatigue SyndromeMyalgic EncephalomyelitisMe CfsMe Cfs QuotesNice GuidelinesBiopsychosocial ModelUnhelpful Thoughts Author:Theo Anbu