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==Magical Thinking and Patient Blaming== Danger of patient blaming<ref name="patientblamingAfME">{{Cite web | url = https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/letter-to-sunday-times-harmful-long-covid-article/ | title = Letter to Sunday Times: Harmful Long Covid article | last = Action for ME | first = | authorlink = | date = | website = [[Action for ME]]| archive-url = | archive-date = |url-status = | access-date=2022-03-07}}</ref><ref name="TimesBritainLC">{{Cite news |url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-is-britain-now-the-capital-of-long-covid-grjpvzfvw | title = Why is Britain now the capital of long Covid? | last = Glancy|first = Josh | date = |work=The Times|access-date=2022-03-07| archive-url = | archive-date = |url-status = | language=en|issn=0140-0460|quote=}}</ref>. Brain retraining programs often claim that if you aren’t cured you didn’t try hard enough. It also roots the aetiology of the illness in the [[illness beliefs|false beliefs]] and emotional [[trauma]] or [[stress]] of the patient. The Gupta Program involves visualizing yourself well and interrupting thoughts about your illness with hand signals and phrases such as "soften and flow" and "stop, stop, stop". These are psychological methods to treat a physical illness. It is therefore the efficacy of the patient in carrying out these procedures that determines the cure. So the cause and the cure is down to the emotional and neurological actions of the patient. No one blames an individual for getting cancer or MS or gives them psychological techniques primarily to treat and cure them or blames them for not recovering if they do not rewire their amygdala. In Anthropology this is termed "magical thinking" and discussed at length by Levi-Strauss. In medicine it is often called 'mindset medicine'.This is where changing our thinking will change our reality and therefore our illness. This is not a method in modern medicine and is absurd. If this were the case then all illness or difficult situations would easily disappear. This is the stance that the Wessely School took through the treatment of CBT, it is also relevant to the NLP and Brain Retraining of the Gupta Program and the Brain Retraining methods.
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