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The Bio-Psycho-Social Model: Why your health is more than 'in your head.' 🧠❤️🌍
This essential framework proves mental and physical wellness is influenced by biology, psychology & social.
#BPSModel #PsychosexualTherapy #SocialScripts #CICS
Heading - Why are there no treatments for post-viral illnesses? This is a comic strip with four boxes. In Box one is a line drawing of a Victorian gentleman holding a wad of money. The caption says - “The role of medicine is to get sick people back to work making money for someone else...but it also has another (even darker) purpose” Next to him is a rake wearing specs and the heading says …”if you're up for some self-promotion you can use medicine to acquire fame fortune AND TITLES..!” The rake is saying “You can call me Professor Lord Sir Simeon Wiffle-Waffle, King of the illnesses that don’t have diagnostic tests” Box 2 heading says - “If you start a science media centre to promote your point of view you con trample the declining health of millions worldwide whilst arguing that black is white.” There is a Victorian gentleman on horseback riding over hundreds of skulls. The man is saying ‘Scientific Research is clearly nonsense when the to-psychosocial approach can treat cancers, long-covid and =ME Box 3 heading - “the problem for patients is that the BPS model only produces woolly ideas and prejudice. It hasn't generated any diagnostic tests or treatments. The cartoon shows two men drinking brandy in armchairs in a gentlemen’s club. The man on the left is saying “More 300yr old brandy Sir Simeon?” The man on the right is saying “thanks, but I’ll just have some more money and power if it’s all the same to you!” The final caption says - “It's been great at advancing some men's careers though!” The cartoon maker is #FanningTheFlames
#ME #PEM #LC #LymeDisease #ChronicIllnessHumour #Disability #Feminism #BPSmodel
