Mentally ill?

This man looks like a decent citizen to me. Does he look mentally ill? Well, of course you cannot tell by the way someone looks whether he is mentally ill without a proper (scientific???)diagnosis...

His name is Gordon. When Gordon was a paratrooper he was invited to join the SAS. But he declined that highly complimentary tribute to his strength. From that alone, we can gather that he was a very strong individual to have passed all the stringent mental, physical and psychological tests that have to be passed when joining that section of the army.

Nevertheless, a certain person (who ought to be nameless), without ever seeing him or examining him psychologically, has declared that he is mentally ill. He has declared that the physical illnesses and pain that Gordon suffers daily is 'psychosomatic'. In other words, he is not really ill, but he thinks, (subconciously, of course) that he is ill.

This person has declared to all and sundry that nothing at all, of the thousands of chemical poisons present in the environment Gordon was exposed to has caused his illness - because the illness is not a physical illness, but a mental illness.

The person who declared that is an ostensibly well-educated, but rather shallow psychiatrist. He continually declares, again and again, ad nauseum, that the illness Gordon suffers from comes from within Gordon's own mind.

This 'psychiatrist', without proof from a single properly conducted scientific trial, has not only declared Gordon to be mentally ill, but he has also declared that, everyone with the same range of symptoms resulting from the same triggers that make Gordon physically ill, are also mentally ill! This, of course, without ever personally examining these other ill people.

This psychiatrist, with the worst tunnel vision I have ever come across, also has the impudence to declare that there is no scientific proof that chemicals in the environment have made Gordon ill!

Of course, the recent blood and fat analyses that I, among many thousands of others, have undergone are physical, scientific proof that my painful symptoms have a physical, organic, cause and do not stem from the state of my mind, or from so-called 'stress'. But, of course, Simon Wessely will not want to know that because it will destroy his theory.

So, who do you think is the one verging on mental illness? The one who ignores the easily found factual evidence which proves MCS to be an organic, physical illness, in favour of pursuing an unproved theory that will raise his profile in his chosen profession?

Or the one who suffers from real physical pain that, if his blood and fat were properly assessed as mine has been, would be able to prove the physical cause of his chronic pain and sickness?

How do you prove that you have a headache? Does your pharmacist, when recommending a pain reliever for your headache, insist that your headache is 'psychosomatic' and offer you counselling instead of paracetamol, because you have no scientific proof to show him what is happening in your body to give you that pain?

Simon Wessely is, in my opinion, a mad pseudoscientist. No one, but no one, should listen to his ravings. His published theories, (with monetary thanks from the UK government), has caused much pain and hopelessness to hundreds of thousands of people.

These physically sick people have had their bodies assaulted by chemicals that succeeding UK Governments have allowed into our air, our water and our food. Simon Wessely, with his ravings, has let the government off the hook, as it were, and enabled it to evade its own responsibilities regarding public health.

The result is that all the government research money goes to Wessely and his mob and no government money is put into research to find both the causes and some good medical treatment for those who are actually suffering MCS, fibromyalgia, ME, diabetes, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, etc...

Those who suffer these illnesses are decent, honest taxpayers and they deserve better from this government than to be told that their illnesses are 'all in the mind'.

Thankfully, neither my three NHS consultants and a fourth private consultant, nor two enlightened NHS G.P.s have ever suggested that I am mentally ill, or that the MCS I suffer from is imaginary, or that I have somatized my inner anxieties.

Neither did any of the consultants and nursing staff in the hospital (when I nearly died from blood loss) imagine that the MCS was all in the mind. They treated my blood loss, of course, AND ALSO THEY FULLY CATERED FOR THE MCS AND OTHER ALLERGIES to the best of their ability.

I was served organic food on a 4-day rotation diet and my neutralising injections were kept refrigerated until I needed them. A single room was provided so that I did not have to put up with the perfumes that other patients used. No one could have done more for me.

As well, the Primary Care Trust has fully funded the testing and treatment at the Breakspear (private) Hospital , because that care is not available, generally, within the NHS.

So how can that Wessely wimp ignore all that? Perhaps I should write to him? Maybe I will. I'll send him the results of the tests. Would he argue with that? (I have a sneaky feeling that he would).

I have had trouble getting DLA though. Mainly because, probably, the department has a target of refusals to meet. Or perhaps they want to keep the tribunal members in employment? Or perhaps because chronically ill and disabled people are soft targets anyway, regardless of the DLA regulations. Some people do become intoxicated with the power that is given to them - and chronically ill people are usually too ill to argue with wrong decisions.

Do you remember the psychological (and very cruel) experiment which entailed ordinary people being told to press a button that delivered an electric shock to another person on the other side of a screen? The people in the experiment who were pressing the electric shock buttons obeyed 'authority'. the result was that they were knowingly cruel. As far as they knew, they were causing intense pain to someone they had never even met.

(Another term for that sort of unthinking and conscienceless obedience is "war crime")

Or that psychological experiment with a group of students who were encouraged to role-play with one group as 'prisoners' and the other group as 'warders'. This resulted in the same sort of cruelty by the 'warders' to the role-playing 'prisoners', regardless of the fact that the 'prisoners' had not committed any sort of crime.

Power over fellow humans definitely does intoxicate those who are allowed it.

BTW, it is weird when a DLA doctor, meeting you for the first time, who has merely looked at you after giving you a cursory neurological examination, has written that you are an 'anxious' person. Very strange, because I didn't say anything that would point to any anxieties and I really didn't have (neither have I now), a single care in the world that I was anxious about. I'm not the worrying type.

The way that I usually approach problems is to treat them as 'challenges', rather than problems (language is important). Then to tackle the easiest one first. Having done that, to tackle the next easiest one. Since problems usually occur one at a time, I try not to go to bed with the problem on my mind. If it requires a letter, I will write that immediately, if possible, and then forget about it - because I have done what requires to be done.

If one has done what is required to solve the problem, then it can be taken off one's shoulders completely and forgotten about unless it rears its head again. Then the same action applies. It is wise only to be concerned with what CAN be done; not with what cannot be done.

In the end, what looms large now will later have shrunk to vanishing point in the worldwide scheme of things.

The reason why I am not the worrying type (and I feel genuinely sorry for those who are) is because of this: while not being a fundamentalist religious fanatic, I take my religion seriously and live by it. This gives me a healthy hope for the future and the sure conviction that:

"God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out in order for you to be able to endure it."

Therefore, when I have been at my lowest, suffering, indeed, absolute torture from the dystonia spasms, along with fierce head jerking and extreme pain, I have said, to myself - and others:

Jehovah God knows that I can bear this, so I will.

I have always known God's readiness to help, because He has done so countless times in the past. So I know, from experience, that this scripture is true:

"God is for us a refuge and a strength, a help that is readily to be found during distresses. That is why I shall not fear, though the earth undergo a change..."

I am not alone in having this confidence. Many millions on this earth, today and also in the past, have proved this to be so.

Each person, when faced with the decision as to whether to believe in the Creator of all things, Jehovah God, or not really has to prove it for themselves. Faith cannot be handed down like family heirlooms. Either one becomes faithful to God or not. That is every person's own choice. That is why the apostle Paul wrote:

"Do not model your behaviour on the contemporary world, but let the renewing of your minds transform you, so that you may discern for yourselves what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and mature."

We each, as individuals, have to decide whether we want to gain the knowledge of God from His book, the bible and renewour minds or not.

Gordon does not say whether he believes in God - although one of the icons he uses is a picture of hands together in prayer. However, I believe he is a very strong person in his own right. He is neither depressed under very difficult and painful duress, nor has he lost hope. He is fighting with all the mental strength that he can summon up.

He is to be admired. HE MUST NOT BE IGNORED.

Compared to him, Simon Wessely is a wimp.

Before writing his story on: http://www.satori-5.co.uk Gordon apologises for what he calls his poor writing skills and for the typos he might leave behind in his quest to reach others with MCS via the web. Actually, I think his writing is excellent, and I shall quote a few paragraphs of his in my next entry which express, far better than I can, the way it is for those who unfortunately have contracted MCS from the chemically polluted environment which, daily, we have to put up with.

Good health to you! Bettineolive@AOL.com

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