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The Mental Health Movement: Persecution of Patients?
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===Tactics of denial that refer the character and personality of ME/CFS patients === * Portraying sufferers as abusers (victimisers) who are "targetting psychiatrists" while portray themselves as "the vulnerable and wronged group," for example refering to "vicious campaigns" organised by "pressure groups" and claiming patients are unreasonably hostile * Unsupported and unevidenced suggestions that patients are motivated by "financial or [[secondary gain]]", and that their "claims for [[Department for Work and Pensions |state benefits]] are unjustified" * Blaming patients for their illness, claiming that the problem is "not external but internal" * "Any negative characteristics of a minority of patients are typically generalised and ascribed to all ME/CFS patients, without any supportive evidence" * Minimizing or trivializing the distress and suffering of those with ME/CFS, "alleging that patients exaggerate their symptoms and suffering"
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