The Independent newspaper reports on the background to the growing movement for justice for people with ME.
Coverage | 08.01.18
There is growing pressure on the UK establishment to finally accept that ME is a physical illness, not something that's 'all in the mind'. A recent article in The Independent reviewed the history of illness denial, which has been promoted by leading psychiatrists, private health insurers and politicians and puts further pressure on the interests which have maintained this false and damaging account.
You can read the full article at:
The article made reference to a number of important initiatives led by the Centre for Welfare Reform including:
The detailed article by Nathalie Wright in The Independent has been published in the wake of the success of Jennifer Brea's powerful documentary - Unrest - which explores the reality of living with ME and the damage caused by its denial.
You can visit the film's website here:
https://www.unrest.film/time-for-unrest/
Dr Simon Duffy, Director of the Centre explored these issues in a recent Huffington Post blog where he wrote:
"This dangerous desire to solve a problem by evading the problem, has been made all the easier by the emergence of something called the biopsychosocial (BPS) model: this is an all encompassing framework for rethinking illness - making it part biological, part mental, part social. This may seem reasonable, but it easily becomes a way of blaming the victim and claiming it's all in the mind."
