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==Patient experiences== [[Sophia Mirza]] experienced abusive treatment shortly before her death from [[severe and very severe ME|vet severe M.E.]]<ref name=deathcertificate>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/legal/l1.jpg | title = Certified Copy of an Entry - Death Certificate | last = Mirza | first = Sophia | date = |website=SophiaAndME.org.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=}}</ref> Sophia was living with her mother when her mother's home was broken into in order to forcibly remove Sophia under the Mental Health Act, forcing Sophia to undergo psychiatric treatment at a mental hospital. This was because doctors had decided Sophia's M.E. was a [[Psychologization|psychiatric illness rather than a physical disease]].<ref name="sophiasstory" /> Sophia's mother was able to get the psychiatric section removed but Sophia had deteriorated significantly in that time, and died of M.E. shortly after being released.<ref name="sophiasstory">{{Cite web|url=http://www.investinme.org/Article-050%20Sophia%20Wilson%2001.htm | title = The Story of Sophia and M.E. | last = | first = | date = |website=[[Invest in ME Research]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref> After Sophia's death, an autopsy by an independent neuropathologist found Sophia's spine contained massive infection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/neuropathologicalreport.html | title = Neuropathological Report | last = | first = | date = | website = sophiaandme.org.uk |archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2018-08-10}}</ref> {{See also|Sophia Mirza}} [[Merryn Crofts]], who died of M.E. aged just twenty, was "vindicated by death" after having doctors ignore and dismiss her symptoms for years. In 2013, [[Karina Hansen]], a young Danish woman with a well-established diagnosis of M.E., was physically removed from her parent's home by police and forced into harmful in-patient treatment, first at a neuro center then at a brain injury rehabilitation unit. This included physical and psychological abuse, and the misuse of a harmful [[medically unexplained physical symptoms|psychosomatic]] approach to treat ME/CFS under the [[illness beliefs|false belief]] that [[mental illness]] was causing her M.E. symptoms.<ref name="MEGlobChron20151025KH">{{cite web | title = Karina Hansen | journal = ME Global Chronicle | pages = 6-21 | date = Oct 25, 2015 | url = http://let-me.be/download.php?view.24 }}</ref><ref name="EliotSmith20160404" /> Karina was denied visitors, and had deteriorated significantly and lost all speech by the time her sister was able to see her.<ref name="EliotSmith20160404" /> Karina was separated from her parents and allowed no visitors or cards for long periods. Karina's parents fought a long legal battle to have the harmful treatment stopped, during this battle it was revealed that she had been held illegally against her will and had not been under a mental health order for much of the time.<ref name="EliotSmith20160404">{{citation | last = Eliot-Smith | first1 = Valerie | authorlink1 = Valerie Eliot-Smith | title = Karina Hansen 4: Timeline, Torture and Tragedy| website = Valerie Eliot-Smith Blog | date = Apr 4, 2016 | url = https://valerieeliotsmith.com/2016/04/04/karina-hansen-4-timeline-torture-tragedy/}}</ref> She was released in 2016, as a result of the legal case, by this time Karina's abuse had drawn international attention, particularly when it emerged that Karina had been detained illegally. Karina remains severely traumatized.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://let-me.be/download.php?view.36 | title = The ME Global Chronicle 20161020 - Karina Hansen / Newsletters / Downloads - The ME Global Chronicle | last = Chronicle | first = ME Global|website=let-me.be|language=en|access-date=2018-10-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://let-me.be/news.php?item.22.1 | title = ME Global Chronicle #019a - The ME Global Chronicle | last = Chronicle | first = ME Global|website=let-me.be|language=en|access-date=2018-10-23}}</ref> {{See also|Karina Hansen}} After falling ill at age 14 with [[severe_and_very_severe_ME#verysevere|very severe ME]], [[Jessica Taylor-Bearman]] was hospitalized for four years, experiencing physical and psychological abuse, and sexual abuse at the hands of a hospital carer.<ref name="lonxonreview">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/review-a-girl-behind-dark-glasses/ | title = Review {{|}} A Girl Behind Dark Glasses by Jessica Taylor-Bearman | date = Jul 31, 2018 | website = The London Magazine | last = Thurm|first = Ali}}</ref><ref name="hysterical">{{Cite web|url=https://hystericalwomen.co.uk/2021/02/02/a-girl-in-one-room-lost-trust-doctors-over-years-not-believed-understood/ | title = A girl in one room: "I've lost trust in doctors over 14 years of not being believed or understood" | date = Feb 2021 | website = Hysterical Women}}</ref> When she left hospital she had still not recovered from ME.<ref name="hysterical" /> In 2009, one comment on a public news article posted by a patient read:<br /> :"Sorry, but I was damn near killed by such idiocy so I have not the slightest sympathy for such bigoted physicians...I want several prominent persons responsible for this terrible abuse of millions of ill people across the globe criminally charged and tried for negligence...Many people have DIED because of this, either by direct abuse by doctors, or by disdainful refusal to aid, or actively preventing research into physical causes."<ref name="magicalmedicine" />{{Rp|207}}
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