Comments by "P M" (@pm2886) on "M.E.: Lives devastated - and sufferers told it's made up" video.

  1. That's because it's a psychiatric problem. We should be glad the money is being spent on the root cause.
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  2.  @daniellamcgee4251  It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. A low grade mental illness (like a sub-clinical but still debilitating depression) can't be 'cleared' the way an infection or a bone break can be cleared. Givnen that, ME is more likely an enculturated response to low grade depression. Importantly, ME is something that happens almost exclusively in the First World, meaning it can't be physiological. If it was physiological, rates would be the same all over the world. More importantly, it's rarely seen in people who have no access to support. That's very telling .. because it suggests there's a choice involved. A subconscious choice to be sure, but no less real. If patients mostly only manifest this syndrome when they know they can - because family will do for them, or because they have access to support workers - it proves that there's control over it. The mere fact that those in poor societies, and those who have no access to support, rarely experience this after contracting viruses, tells us so much about the root cause. Having said that, I'm all for further research .. as long as that research isn't not limited by political influence or anti-science social pressure. As long as we refuse to consider all possible root causes, we are obstructing science.
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