May 12th : International M.E./C.F.S. awareness day.

[gregf]

Imagine if AIDS had been treated as a mental illness. Imagine if the
people who were sick were told, "It is all in your head". The very name
of the illness gets changed to "Chronic Homosexual Syndrome". Sufferers
loose their jobs, too sick to work, cannot get government and private
insurance benefits, get rejected by their friends and family and are
left to live in poverty, dying of cancer, or even taking their own lives.

In 1988 an 8 year old boy in the UK was very sick with an illness known
as M.E. The hospital could do nothing and turned him away and his parents
desperate for help, accepted it from a new doctor. The next morning this
doctor and the police raided the boys home. The parents were accused of
neglect and the boy was put in a psychiatric hospital. The new doctor was a
psychiatrist who believed there was nothing wrong with the boy.

The boy was left in bed, not taken to the toilet. They were trying to get him
to get up, go to the toilet himself but the bed became urine soaked. He was
pushed in a wheelchair and the orderlies would grab it so the boy fell out.
They were trying to get him to grab hold, but he was too weak. Eventually
he was thrown in a swimming pool, almost drowned and had to be rescued.
All this was because the psychiatrist believed the boy was not sick and exercise
and psychiatric treatment would prove it.

This psychiatrist was Simon Wessley http://simonwessely.com/ and his opinions
were grabbed by insurance companies and governments around the world for the
next 20 years. He also works for the British Army, saying that Gulf War Syndrome
does not exist. They (and the CDC in America) changed the name of the illness to
"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" to belittle it. This shameful British idea has gone around the world.

Over the next 20 years vast amounts of money meant to research the illness is diverted
to the psychiatrists who study "fatigue" in the UK, USA, Holland and many other countries.

Sufferers are left terribly sick. Too weak to walk, many, especially women can not
even get out of bed. Any exertion increases the symptoms, flu like pain along with
neck, shoulder, leg pain, pain and extreme tenderness in the lymph system, headaches,
gut aches (I.B.S.), cognitive dysfunction, that is memory loss and confusion, inability
to think and make decisions, shaky handwriting, even a speech stammer, terrible insomnia,
and many other symptoms.

In 1990 a researcher in the US suspects a retro-virus is involved but the CDC strips
her funding and her career is ruined. Most research funding goes to psychiatry and the
psychiatrists get control of funding bodies particularly in Britain. In Britain if you have
M.E. and do not agree to psychiatric treatment, which still involves exercise therapy, you
will loose social security and even have your children taken from you.

In 2009 researchers in the US discover that with careful testing, 98% of patients with
ME-CFS have the third human retro-virus XMRV. XMRV is linked to Prostate Cancer
and other cancers. The British psychiatrist are desperately fighting this discovery because
it shows they have caused the greatest medical abuse scandal of modern times. Billions
of dollars are at stake as patients will sue the psychiatrists, the CDC in America, and
the British government(NHS) in the UK.

XMRV is also now in 3.7% of the general population. DNA analysis shows it is a very new
retro-virus, so it has spread around the world in the last 20 years. So 1 in 25 of you reading
this have XMRV in your system. It is probably spread like HIV through bodily fluids. In
fact XMRV is very similar genetically to HIV. The implications are huge : XMRV is possibly
linked to things such as Autism and diastolic heart dysfunction which has been rising for 20 years.

XMRV, like HIV is a retro-virus. That means it gets into your DNA and every time a cell
replicates, more retro-virus is made. It is in you for life.

Today May 12th is international ME-CFS awareness day. Please speak up for us if you can.
One simple thing to do is call the illness "M.E." and not "chronic fatigue".

If you read this please this, please post a word of support so that a few more people may
read this before it sinks.

Thank you.


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[York Minster]

But many psychs believe that multiple personalities do exist. And almost all believe that personality is a valid concept. Most mental illnesses are just made up of symptoms. Does "chronic fatique" exist? For that matter, does "bipolar" exist? I don't question that people have symptoms, I've had symptoms of all kinds at various points. But it's all entirely subjective what these symptoms add up to when we don't know the cause. Tiredness and energy issues are things that psychs can do very little about, it's probably better to research if it is a virus, because if you have extreme tired issues you really only have two options: 1. Take an upper 2. Address other ares of your life that are bad that may be causing it such as poor self esteem, noogenic issues (lack of meaning in life), etc

[gregf]

Well possibly my long thread was too much for most.
This time I will keep it simple.

Things are progressing very rapidly now.

My advice is do not receive blood transfusions or organ transplants if you can postpone it.
It looks like XMRV is in the donated blood supply and general population.

We are going to go through the same scenario as HIV many years ago.

[Sandy Shaw]

Greg, here is my message of support. It seems that M.E. does exist and there is certainly no reason to doubt that people who want to get on with normal life are sometimes greatly suffering and simply can't. The retro virus research sounds very interesting. May I wish you all the best.

[gregf]

Thank you so much for your kind words Sandy Shore.

Forgive me banging on about this.
I speak up to help others doing much worse than me.
I know a lady in UK with ME, who had here children taken away from her
when they were 5 and 8 and she has not seen them in 12 years.
Just because she refused to be treated as crazy person.

Have a good weekend friends and look after your health.

[Sandy Shaw]

Thank you so much for your kind words Sandy Shore.

Forgive me banging on about this.
I speak up to help others doing much worse than me.
I know a lady in UK with ME, who had here children taken away from her
when they were 5 and 8 and she has not seen them in 12 years.
Just because she refused to be treated as crazy person.

Have a good weekend friends and look after your health.

What a dreadful thing to happen to her.

It is Sandy Shaw not Sandy Shore by the way! (My real surname is Shaw and my nick is a tribute to Sandie Shaw)/

[gregf]

Oh, I do apologise.

Being Australian, I tend to nickname people and always think
of the beach when I see your tag, hence sandy shore.

I looked up Sandie Shaw ; she had some very good songs ; reading on.