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=== Psychiatric paradigm === '''It's time for doctors to apologize to their ME patients - For too long the medical community has dismissed 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' as a mental illness which can be cured with therapy and exercise'''<ref>{{citation |last = Shepherd | first = Charles | date = 7 December 2015 | title = It’s time for doctors to apologise to their ME patients|url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12033810/Its-time-for-doctors-to-apologise-to-their-ME-patients.html|newspaper= The Telegraph|location= London|access-date= }}</ref> ''The Telegraph'' By: Dr. [[Charles Shepherd]]. (Dec 7, 2015) "The mud from the BMJ stuck. Like most doctors at the time, I left medical school believing that ME was not a real disease and I would probably never see a case. I was wrong." '''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Not All In Your Head'''<ref>{{citation |last = Newman | first = Rebecca | date = 3 November 2016 | title = Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Not All In Your Head | url = http://www.elleuk.com/life-and-culture/elle-voices/longform/a32559/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-not-all-in-your-head/|newspaper= Elle|location= London|access-date= }}</ref> ''Elle UK'' By: Rebecca Newman. (Nov 3, 2016) "One morning when I was 15, I ran out of energy as I walked to a lesson at school. I sank down to rest my face on a frosty path, and couldn't get back up. I had been ill with glandular fever the previous summer and returned to school a week late but life was busy: it was the summer of 1995, I was an A-grade student, taking extra subjects and fencing at a national level." '''I Sometimes Feel Defeated by My Chronic Illness'''<ref>{{citation | last = Pippa | first = Stacey | date = Oct 1, 2018 | title = I Sometimes Feel Defeated by My Chronic Illness|url= https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/disability-undefeatable_uk_5d921745e4b0019647ac4b29|newspaper=Huffington Post|location= |access-date= }}</ref> ''The Huffington Post'' By: Pippa Stacey. (Oct 1, 2019) "Do people really think that the idea of exercising or getting more active simply hasn't occurred to disabled people?" "We unfortunately live in a society that continually splits the disabled community into two camps: the inspirational superheroes, 'overcoming' their 'limitations' to climb mountains and win Paralympic medals, and The Rest: the ones seen as benefits scroungers, as the ones 'who don’t help themselves', the ones who are a drain on society." '''ME sufferers demand end to exercise treatment'''<ref name="ScotsGET" /> ''The Sunday Times'' By: Mark Macaskill. (May 10, 2020) Paywalled. Scottish ministers are being urged to withdraw a controversial treatment that is prescribed on the NHS to treat myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) but is blamed for leaving many victims housebound or crippled. More than 21,000 Scots suffer from ME, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and coronavirus is expected to trigger more cases. There are concerns that GPs will prescribe graded exercise therapy (GET), a treatment offered on the NHS that asks patients to continually increase their levels of activity and “push through” symptoms. Campaigners claim many patients have been harmed by the therapy, and they are pressing for it to be dropped in the UK.
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