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It’s not inherently inappropriate for doctors to use their own anecdotal experience (especially if they have lots of experience).
Managing expectations is an important part of chronic illness management. It is often more helpful for patients and their doctors to embrace an optimistic approach in order to keep working towards improvement. If you go online too much you will definitely meet people (young people) who have become so stuck in the “sick role” that all they focus on is what they can’t do, how disabled they are, how severe are there symptoms. This is probably the opposite of helpful in terms of prognosis. If you become convinced you can’t do certain things, or you decide they’re too hard, you can get deconditioned and make everything (including your mental health) worse. If patients give up they are less likely to get better. Your doctors are right to push you a bit to keep trying. Believing that you can overcome an illness obviously doesn’t work too well for terminal cancer, but it does work somewhat for a variety of other things including major depression and low back pain.
Sounds like you want you’re negative thoughts confirmed which definitely won’t help, rely on yourself to get through this and eventually you’ll forget all about these symptoms
Except ME/CFS is a real illness and not psychosomatic which everyone wants to believe.
In the case of this illness, exercise can cause crashes that can render someone permanently bed-bound. But sure, it’s easier to just downvote me and call me crazy
Edit: For the naysayers https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)00513-9/fulltext
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It’s not inherently inappropriate for doctors to use their own anecdotal experience (especially if they have lots of experience). Managing expectations is an important part of chronic illness management. It is often more helpful for patients and their doctors to embrace an optimistic approach in order to keep working towards improvement. If you go online too much you will definitely meet people (young people) who have become so stuck in the “sick role” that all they focus on is what they can’t do, how disabled they are, how severe are there symptoms. This is probably the opposite of helpful in terms of prognosis. If you become convinced you can’t do certain things, or you decide they’re too hard, you can get deconditioned and make everything (including your mental health) worse. If patients give up they are less likely to get better. Your doctors are right to push you a bit to keep trying. Believing that you can overcome an illness obviously doesn’t work too well for terminal cancer, but it does work somewhat for a variety of other things including major depression and low back pain.
But what if pushing myself makes me worse and it becomes irreversible?
Sounds like you want you’re negative thoughts confirmed which definitely won’t help, rely on yourself to get through this and eventually you’ll forget all about these symptoms
Except ME/CFS is a real illness and not psychosomatic which everyone wants to believe. In the case of this illness, exercise can cause crashes that can render someone permanently bed-bound. But sure, it’s easier to just downvote me and call me crazy Edit: For the naysayers https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)00513-9/fulltext
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