Heading - How well has the BPS model of #ME performed since that infamous 201
conference?
First image - a woman is sitting in bed and there’s a question “did the incidence of #ME decrease?” A wise cat replies “no one iota”
Second Image - is a foot of a dead resin with a toe rage that says #pwME. The caption asks “did the suffering, or number of deaths decrease?”
The wise cat replies “no those increased too- it’s depressing isn’t it”
Third Image - is of the COVID-19 virus. The caption says “Did the psychologising of #ME prepare the world to cope with post-covid illness”
The wise cat replies “if you believe that you haven’t got the gist of this have you?!”
In the final box the wise cat is saying “the psychologising of #ME doesn’t work for patients”
Beneath that is a photo of Simon Wessely (the chief architect of the bio-psycho-social model of #ME and other post-infectious illnesses, he’s replying “no, but by golly it worked pretty well for me.”
The weekend’s cartoon for
#mecfs, #cfs, #pwME, #MEeps, #MCAS, #POTS, #EDS, #EhlersDanlos, #hsd, #hEds, #fibromyalgia, #CRPS, #fibro, #LongCovid, #pwLC, #lupus, #Migrane, #ChronicIllness #gastroparesis,