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==Criticism == Song and Jason (2005) attempted to replicate Vercoulen's model, but found it did not fit patient data.<ref name="SongJason2005" /> {{Quote box|Vercoulen et al. (1998) suggested their findings indicated that individuals with CFS attribute their symptoms to physical causes, are overly preoccupied by physical limitations, and do not maintain regular activity. According to this model, these factors cause individuals with CFS to be functionally impaired and to experience severe fatigue. The fact that this model could not be replicated with either the CFS or those with medical reasons for their chronic fatigue... suggests an important distinction between individuals with chronic fatigue due to a psychiatric condition versus CFS. In other words, the present study does not support a purely psychogenic explanation for CFS. | title = Thoughts, beliefs and a lack of activity cannot explain Chronic Fatigue Syndrome|source=Song and Jason (2005)}} The BPS model has been criticized for being inappropriately applied to organic biological diseases, and [[medically unexplained physical symptoms]] (diseases that cannot yet be fully explained by medical science). [[Psychologization]] is the assumption that a disease or illness that cannot yet be explained by medical science must be wholly or partlypsychological in nature, and is used to justify psychological treatments such as [[cognitive behavioral therapy]]. BPS models have frequently been applied to ME/CFS, [[fibromyalgia]] (FM/FMS), peptic ulcers and other illnesses that are now understood to be physiological diseases.<ref name=":0" /> Davey Smith states that peptic ulcer was "the classic BPS disease" but that "[[cognitive behavioral therapy]] rather disturbingly had no effect"; only the discovery of ''[[helicobacter pylori]]'' in 1983 allowed the patients to be cured.<ref name=":0" /> The application of the BPS model for ME/CFS has led to [[graded exercise therapy]] (GET or GES) and [[cognitive behavioral therapy]] (CBT) as treatment for ME/CFS in a number of countries including the [[United Kingdom|UK]].
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