Comments on: Getting rich on disability denial

By: jacquie perrie

jacquie perrie — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:15:05 +0000

Many of us are aware of what they are doing. How can we stop this despicable abuse!

By: joe kane

joe kane — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:51:28 +0000

There is a form of CBT which is used on vulnerable patients by medical authorities to brainwash their victims into ignoring their symptoms and to imagine there is nothing wrong with their health.

Angela Kennedy has recently publish a book which explains these institutionalised iatrogenic abuses. See Chapter 6 Think yourself better in her ‘Authors of Their Own Misfortune? The Problems with Psychogenic Explanations’ (2012).

The excellent Tom Kindlon of the Irish ME/CFS Association, in an recent interview explains that CBT, and its usual accompaniment GET, have never been properly tested or evaluated for harm done to patients -
Cort Johnson interviews Tom Kindlon (Introduction)
http://phoenixrising.me/archives/15567

The DWP ESA regime presumes that it is BPS psychosocial problems of patients which are preventing them getting back to work, not their actual real physical diseases and disabilities. Under the pseudo-scientific medical quackology behind the unethical ESA regime, disabled patients are automatically assumed to have become mentally deconditioned and psychologically demotivated, and just giving them welfare benefits, inappropriate sympathy and suchlike merely perpetuates this baleful situation. Some CBT/GET in the form of a ESA WRAG mandatory work scheme will soon get them back on their feet and into the right frame of mind to enter the job market once again.

At this point in time, the £5 million PACE Trial Study which was partly funded by the DWP, and the only such medical study it has ever funded, has run into trouble trying to justify the efficacy and harmlessness of CBT/GET. PACE was a means to justify the DWP’s BPS model of disability denial and has fallen flat on its face.

Quite where the British medical mandarin establishment governing authorities are in all this unfolding BPS disaster, which has engulfed the whole of the British long-term sick and disabled patient community, still remains to be seen. How the medical science the DWP uses to justify its ESA regime managed to pass the peer review process is a mystery. As is the medical establishment’s silence on the now vast amount of evidence that professional medics working for the DWP and Atos are taking part in an unethical anti-medical process which is harming and traumatising vast numbers of sick and disabled people in Britain with, as yet,no end in sight.

By: lisa brady

lisa brady — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:51:24 +0000

Chris’s is so spot on CBT is a deffinate f.orm of brain washing for those not trained to provide adequate councelling.can be taught in two hours for a 6 week course then let lose on the most vulnerable not clinicly supervised can be carried out by anyone.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:35:46 +0000

The biopsychosocial model of illness has been used so effectively to in the denial of M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), in favour of a definition of idiopathic fatigue with ill defined symptoms and calling it CFS. It’s cheaper to do psychological research and so much cheaper to treat it with brainwashing CBT for 6 sessions, which seeks to play down the nature of your illness and tells you can recover by thinking you can and changing your behaviour (exercise/increased activity until you get back to work.) Nice agenda driven approach. It started with the insurance industry: It was cheaper to deny the lifelong neurological illnesses that got permanent ill health payments, in favour of psychological disorders that you can possibly recover from.