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==Articles== *19 Feb 2015, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150220123853/https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-back ''Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Back! But the new Institute of Medicine report is driven by politics, not science''] This article in ''Psychology Today'' was pulled and replaced with a [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-in-the-context-the-history-medicine less strongly-worded one a week later]. However, in both, he criticizes the [[Institute of Medicine]] committee: "It’s a committee that the [[chronic fatigue syndrome|CFS]] patients’ lobby has roped, captured, and hogtied. How the Institute of Medicine could have let itself in for this embarrassment is a mystery." "Nothing has changed since then [1992] in scientific terms. There have been no convincing new studies, no breakthrough findings of organicity, nothing.""But, rather than [[SEID]], what many of these patients have is a kind of delusional somatization, the unshakeable belief that something is wrong with their bodies rather than their minds." *23 Feb 2015, [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-everyone-became-depressed/201502/chronic-fatigue-in-the-context-the-history-medicine ''Chronic Fatigue in the Context of the History of Medicine: Lives today are ruined by CFS''] Shorter writes:"Is it possible that the symptoms of [[ME/CFS]] are occasionally caused by a real but undiagnosed disease? In some cases, undoubtedly. But the term includes two other clinical populations as well: patients with delusional somatization, who simply misinterpret the signals their bodies are sending off; and patients with a psychiatric disorder such as depression, which often causes feelings of pain and fatigue. The interests of these latter two groups are not well served by asserting that they have an occult organic illness."
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