Dan Wyke 🦠➡️🧠🔥 Profile picture
M.E. inactivist; person-centred counsellor (currently not practicing); recovering poet (Rack & Waterloo Press)

May 28, 2019, 5 tweets

'... patients are told that they must tell themselves and others that they are in full health, regardless of how they actually feel.' @nancyblakefoa examines The Lightning Process. 1/
positivehealth.com/article/cfs-me… #pwME #MyalgicE #MedEd #MEcfs #health #MillionsMissing
#MEAwareness

'They must reinforce this by giving up any physical aids they have, and begin behaving as though they are well... I understand that the children are also told that the treatment won’t work if they tell anyone how it is done.' 2/

Elsewhere @davidtuller1 memorably described the LP as 'a pseudo-scientific potpourri of neuro-linguistic programming, life-coaching and osteopathy that was created by Tarot expert Phil Parker, who is also a specialist in reading auras to diagnose people’s ailments.'  3/

And 'a commercial, pseudo-scientific grab-bag of neuro-linguistic programming, life-coaching, osteopathy and positive affirmations. Participants are taught that they can overcome illness by controlling and changing their thought patterns.' 4/

Of course, nowhere in the LP's advertising literature is there any mention of the child who tragically committed suicide after 'failing' to get better after attending a LP course. 5/

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