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Walitt | Walitt believes that [[fibromyalgia]] is a "psychosomatic experience," a variant of normal, and not an abnormal disease state that should be medicalized.<ref>[http://www.familypracticenews.com/specialty-focus/rheumatology/single-article-page/video-fibromyalgia-doesnt-fit-the-disease-model/e913134880916685f3005dac5459ab88.html VIDEO: Fibromyalgia doesn’t fit the disease model]</ref> He has stated that fibromyalgia is not a disease but rather a way of "dealing with the difficulties of just being a human.”<ref>[http://www.meaction.net/2016/02/20/nih-lead-clinical-investigator-thinks-cfs-is-psychosomatic/ NIH lead clinical investigator thinks CFS and fibro are somatoform], #MEAction, February 20, 2016</ref> | ||
In a 2015 paper on [[chemotherapy]] related [[cognitive dysfunction]]<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750385/ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy]</ref> co-authored by Walitt, [[fibromyalgia]] and [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] are referred to as [[somatoform]] illnesses, with their hallmark being a "...discordance between the severity of subjective experience and that of objective impairment...". | In a 2015 paper on [[chemotherapy]] related [[cognitive dysfunction]]<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750385/ Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy]</ref> co-authored by Walitt, [[fibromyalgia]] and [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] are referred to as [[somatoform]] illnesses, with their hallmark being a "...discordance between the severity of subjective experience and that of objective impairment...". |