It is impossible to find anyone within the medical field who doesn’t instantly go to a psychological explanation for something they can’t figure out. They don’t say it to your face to start with, it’ll be in the notes and in the look on their faces when you try to say you’re too sick to get out of bed but your bloodwork shows nothing.
My life has been one long illustration of medical ridiculousness (gaslighting) right from undiagnosed appendicitis, gallstones and a dr somehow missing a dislocated kneecap to a sexual assault by a doctor at 17.
I am so sick of the Gatekeeper mentality that is prevalent. It’s killing people.
All I can do is rant in agreement, though it is probably better to say something than stay silent. We need the scientific method to check the veracity of beliefs because it is human nature to construct ideas about the way the world around us works using our imagination and not all of the resulting concepts are accurate, though evolution favours any which are utilitarian and guide behaviour in a way which assists reproduction, which is why we all understand how to do science instinctively and test ideas based on simple logic. Freud did not test his ideas empirically and was not a scientist, his ideas evolved based on what he could persuade others to believe. Which is why I say he was cultish and shamanic, a fantasist and populist who invented dramatic and poetic beliefs based on classical myths and marketed them like a new religion. Comparable to Hubbard, Smith, Jones, Manson and Mesmer etc, he was selling books and building a career for his own profit with no thought for the harm his fiction might do to others. As long as they would buy it, he would sell it. A charismatic poser and charlatan, not a medic, he did more harm than good. No scientist or medic should take his ideas as an inspiration but unfortunately some people do because they sell, especially to a market of people who have not been educated to exercise their critical faculties, or do not want to, or those who do not want others to. Modern psychology retains elements of shamanic careerism in its academic and career structure, which we need to criticise, vociferously, especially where influential theories arising are not tested and verified scientifically, by which I mean empirically. I agree some marketable ideas, which are dismissive of symptomology in a manner indistinguishable from chauvenist prejudice, continue to be rebranded to this day.
are we allowed to share your blogs and include them off and on in the ME Global Chronicle https://wordpress.com/home/meglobalchronicle.wordpress.com of course always mentioning their source? As also translate them into Dutch for the Dutch ME-community (to be published at ME Centraal https://mecentraal.wordpress.com/) ?
Certainly, I'd be honoured!
https://meglobalchronicle.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/freuds-hysteria/
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Unfortunately that concept has made a comeback, just as neurologists were successfully fighting it. https://drsullins.substack.com/p/not-hysterical-just-regretful
It is impossible to find anyone within the medical field who doesn’t instantly go to a psychological explanation for something they can’t figure out. They don’t say it to your face to start with, it’ll be in the notes and in the look on their faces when you try to say you’re too sick to get out of bed but your bloodwork shows nothing.
My life has been one long illustration of medical ridiculousness (gaslighting) right from undiagnosed appendicitis, gallstones and a dr somehow missing a dislocated kneecap to a sexual assault by a doctor at 17.
I am so sick of the Gatekeeper mentality that is prevalent. It’s killing people.
K, do you have ME/CFS yourself? I do. Debilitating. Thank goodness I have an enlightened doctor. There seem to be few of those around.
Yup, I’ve got moderate ME, since 2010. Glad to hear you have a helpful doctor!
All I can do is rant in agreement, though it is probably better to say something than stay silent. We need the scientific method to check the veracity of beliefs because it is human nature to construct ideas about the way the world around us works using our imagination and not all of the resulting concepts are accurate, though evolution favours any which are utilitarian and guide behaviour in a way which assists reproduction, which is why we all understand how to do science instinctively and test ideas based on simple logic. Freud did not test his ideas empirically and was not a scientist, his ideas evolved based on what he could persuade others to believe. Which is why I say he was cultish and shamanic, a fantasist and populist who invented dramatic and poetic beliefs based on classical myths and marketed them like a new religion. Comparable to Hubbard, Smith, Jones, Manson and Mesmer etc, he was selling books and building a career for his own profit with no thought for the harm his fiction might do to others. As long as they would buy it, he would sell it. A charismatic poser and charlatan, not a medic, he did more harm than good. No scientist or medic should take his ideas as an inspiration but unfortunately some people do because they sell, especially to a market of people who have not been educated to exercise their critical faculties, or do not want to, or those who do not want others to. Modern psychology retains elements of shamanic careerism in its academic and career structure, which we need to criticise, vociferously, especially where influential theories arising are not tested and verified scientifically, by which I mean empirically. I agree some marketable ideas, which are dismissive of symptomology in a manner indistinguishable from chauvenist prejudice, continue to be rebranded to this day.