#but it's just cruel.arrogant.ignorance

[idlespright]

They said MS (Multiple Sclerosis) was psychosomatic because they couldn't find a biomarker. The patients, they hypothetisized, had trauma from not being cared enough in their childhood and now subconsciously paralyzed themselves with their unmet needs even to death (see e.g. Münch J. Psychosomatische Aspekte der multiplen Sklerose [Psychosomatic aspects of multiple sclerosis]. Ther Umsch. 1995 Feb;52(2):142-5. German. PMID: 7892676.). Then they invented a way to measure the demyelinisation and -boom- MS was no longer psychosomatic.

At least one Psychoanalyst (Casper G. Schmidt, 1984) insisted, that AIDS was psychosomatic. Patients, he said, became depressed because they internalized the homophobia of the society they lived in. That made them die in a "mass hysteria" event. He later died of AIDS himself (in 1994).

PCOS was considered a mental health issue of women.

Other diagnoses show, that you don't even need a lab test or medical imaging to accept, and treat, a physical illness without inventing psychological factors:

Asthma and Parkinson are two well known chronic illnesses without a biomarker. In both cases the clinical diagnosis (e.g. going by symptoms and excluding other probable health issues) is well established.

Doctors aren't gods. They are specialists with a quite narrow field of expertise. Sometimes they forget that fact. Especially when confronted with systemic illnesses like ME/CFS.

There is a plethora of physical abnormalities in ME/CFS that can be measured. Reduced anaerobic threshold, impaired oxygen uptake, mitochondrial damage, higher counts of GPCR autoantibodies, and much more.

Don't let doctors guilt trip and gaslight you.