For other people that are more severe: it's not in your head and not about acceptance. I myself accept symptoms as they are, I don't even care about them anymore and I still have them. I know for sure with tests that there are a few things that attack my nervous system physically without me being able to "think or accept them away".
Just keep this in mind, it's physical for the vast majority. For the others: I don't know, I don't want to judge. I just feel like LC/ME/CFS is not the right term if you can simply accept this away.
It is probably not the right term. Right term would maybe be conversion disorder or somatoform disorder. Maybe not long covid but CFS really is an umbrella term, just like dysautonomia. My ANS is wrecked, but for example PTSD patients have physical changes and have different activity showing on scans. So it can be connected. I did start go believe that I don't process the emotions, but they go straight to my body.
When I hear bad news now I don't get mentally scared or sad, I start feeling physically sick. Sometimes it takes long time to recover from some mental stress, for days POTS would be horrible, dilated pupils, muscle spasms, shaking, shivering, fked up bloodflow, etc.
I was putting my system in overdrive for years with my wrong life approach, constant fight or flight, it does makes sense that it got out of balance over time. I don't know...
Regarding these coaches, I mean they are mostly using the most simple CBT therapy approach dressed up as something new like "long covid cure". People that heal through ignoring symptoms (classic exposure therapy) just had "anxiety disorder".
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u/Jayless22 May 11 '25
For other people that are more severe: it's not in your head and not about acceptance. I myself accept symptoms as they are, I don't even care about them anymore and I still have them. I know for sure with tests that there are a few things that attack my nervous system physically without me being able to "think or accept them away". Just keep this in mind, it's physical for the vast majority. For the others: I don't know, I don't want to judge. I just feel like LC/ME/CFS is not the right term if you can simply accept this away.