wtf 'treatment' is this?!

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-69040592pp

The link doesn't work

I'm assuming https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-69040592 It appears to essentially be a 'mind over matter' treatment for long covid.

I've been trawling old threads about long covid/ ME and this lightning thing always comes up...I'm pretty sure I've read that the ME experts actively advise against it

Thanks for working link @slashlover!

I guess where there's people desperate for cures and treatments, there's a market for this dangerous shite.

This is the sort of thing that people with ME/CFS come up against, too. This is yet another example of 'thought manifestation' where you visualise yourself getting well (or wealthy, or famous) and if you do it enough supposedly you'll bring what you are trying to manifest into existence. If you don't recover then you aren't trying hard enough, of course.

Everyone with chronic illness is a candidate for seeing if an attitude can help them feel better, though. It's not unique to LC that attitude in how an illness is managed can make a big difference to making the illness more manageable.

This kind of magical thinking 'treatment' is sadly too common, good to see it being called out.

People don't go from zero to realising they have a chronic illness. Initially, most believe otherwise. They are already seeking to get better, which is why some end up on these sorts of 'treatments'.

I totally understand the desperation. And if you're ever so slightly inclined towards the woo I think there are many unproductive or even harmful paths you can find yourself going down.