A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLNESS
Professor Edward Shorter, a historian and the author of a book on the history of psychiatry, asserted confidently that a number of conditions, such as chronic fatigue, repetitive stress injury and fibromyalgia, are not real physical illnesses but hysteria. He argued that no underlying organic cause has been found, that the incidence of these conditions rises and falls, and that they are mere "media-spread illness attributions." He says, "And if you have basically, hysteria, and you can dignify it with something that makes it sound like you have a serious illness, then you get more respect from people."
HAY – GUESS WHAT? HE IS WRONG ! ! ! ! !
– You are not mad
– you are not imagining things
– you are not ‘ pretending’
– you cannot ‘pull yourself together’.
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