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Summary
Graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for M.E. and chronic fatigue syndrome. "As a physician bedridden with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) for more than a decade who is totally dependent on others, all thanks to a major relapse caused by GET, I am in a unique position to answer how harmful GET and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) really are. The basis of these therapies is false illness beliefs, meaning that it is all in the mind. These beliefs ignore all of the evidence that ME is a physical disease, such as intracellular immune dysfunctions, which not only restrict exercise capacity but also worsen with exercise (2)."

Maik Speedy (Dec 2015). "Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (PDF). Annals of Internal Medicine. 163 (11): 884

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