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==Blaming patients and carers== Some health professionals, including doctors, have stated that they believe ME/CFS is a behavioral disorder, and in [[FINE trial|one unsuccessful clinical trial of psychological therapy for severely ill patients]], some nurses blamed patients when the treatment involving behavioral change failed, claiming they were "bastards" who just "don't want to get better".<ref name="parliamentHooperEvidence">{{Cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/503/503we79.htm | title = Evidence submitted by Professor Malcolm Hooper (NICE 07) | last = | first = | authorlink = | date = March 2007 | website = publications.parliament.uk|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2020-10-31}}</ref><ref name="Propaganda" /> Some nurses had become totally convinced that the psychological and behavioral treatment would work, and that patients were well enough to be able to follow it, that they appeared to lose sight of the fact they were part of a clinical trial to determine ''if'' the treatments worked.<br /> Some carers of [[Severe and very severe ME|severely ill ME/CFS]] patients have been blamed for "encouraging" patients to remain sick by providing essential care, and told to stop essential care.<ref name="sophia" /> Some parents of severely ill children with ME/CFS found themselves accused of medical neglect or [[Fabricated Induced Illness|Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy]] when they declined potentially harmful medical treatment, or the children were labelled as having [[school phobia]] rather than a genuine illness when doctors or social workers denied the reality of their illness.<ref name="Colby2017">{{Cite journal | last = Colby|first = J | author-link = Jane Colby | date = Feb 2007 | title = Special problems of children with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the enteroviral link | url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860612/|journal=Journal of Clinical Pathology|volume=60|issue=2|pages=125β128|doi=10.1136/jcp.2006.042606|issn=0021-9746|pmc=1860612|pmid=16935964|access-date=|quote=|via=}}</ref>
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