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=== Stigma from health professionals === A number of [[Wessely school|highly influential health professionals]] have made highly stigmatized, dismissive and offensive comments about patients with [[ME/CFS]], which continues to this day. Many patients in the UK and elsewhere in continue to report that their doctor was either openly skeptical about their ones, or expressed disbelief.<ref name="Deale2001" /><ref name="GeraghtyEsmail2016">{{Cite journal | last1 = Geraghty | first1 = Keith | authorlink1 = Keith Geraghty | last2 = Esmail | first2 = Aneez | authorlink2 = Aneez Esmail | title = Chronic fatigue syndrome: is the biopsychosocial model responsible for patient dissatisfaction and harm? | journal = British Journal of General Practice | volume = 66 | issue =649 | page = 437-438 | date = 1 Aug 2016 | doi = 10.3399/bjgp16X686473 | url = https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp16X686473 }}</ref><ref name="obstruction" /> Similar experiences have been reported within disability assessments, and by clinicians at a specialist CFS/ME clinic in the UK.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":9">{{Cite journal | last = Collings | first=Anthony D | authorlink = Anthony Collings | last2 = Newton | first2 = David | author-link2 = David Newton | date = Jun 18, 2014 | title = Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome a meme?|url=https://forums.phoenixrising.me/threads/bmj-rapid-response-is-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-a-meme-18-june-2014.30944/|url-status=usurped|journal=[[The BMJ]]|language=en|volume=|issue=|pages=|doi=|issn=0959-8138|pmid=|archive-url=|archive-date=Jun 18, 2014|quote=|via=|pmc=|access-date=}}</ref> In 2019, a [[UK Parliament Commons Chamber debate 24th January 2019|UK parliament debate]] highlighted that the members of the medical profession did not fully recognize ME, which increased the stigma and the marginalization of people with ME.<ref name="hansardjan19">{{Cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2019-01-24/debates/FA1BBC27-37A7-4BFD-A2C0-A58B57F41D4D/AppropriateMETreatment | title = Appropriate ME Treatment {{!}} 24 January 2019 Volume 653 | last = Hansard {{!}} UK Parliament | first= | author-link =| date = Jan 24, 2019 | website = hansard.parliament.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> ME patients have been stereotyped in many ways, including being accused of having negative attitudes towards [[Mental health|mental illness]] and being [[Personality traits and patient attitudes in ME/CFS|"anti-psychiatry"]], however Wood & [[Simon Wessely|Wessely]] (1999) showed that attitudes towards mental illness are no different from those of other patient groups, for example [[rheumatoid arthritis]] patients.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Wood | first=Barbara | authorlink = Barbara Wood | last2 = Wessely | first2 = Simon | authorlink2 = Simon Wessely | date = Oct 1999 | title = Personality and social attitudes in chronic fatigue syndrome|url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022399999000252|journal=Journal of Psychosomatic Research|language=en|volume=47|issue=4|pages=385β397|doi=10.1016/S0022-3999(99)00025-2|quote=No differences were found between CFS and RA patients in measures of perfectionism, attitudes toward mental illness, defensiveness, social desirability, or sensitivity to punishment (a concept related to neuroticism), on either crude or adjusted analyses... There was no evidence from this study of major differences between the personalities of CFS patients and RA patients. The stereotype of CFS sufferers as perfectionists with negative attitudes toward psychiatry was not supported.|via=}}</ref>
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