'The latest DWP Guidelines and PACE are still directing the Health Service to treat ME sufferers with GET and CBT (a tool used for mental illnesses) despite the mounting evidence from a vast amount of research proving that ME is an organic not a psychosomatic disease and that the treatments forced onto those affected do in fact cause more harm than good and can worsen the condition of patients. Money should instead be invested in research into the physiologocal aetiology of ME/CFS and its treatment. Patients should not be forced into becoming psychiatric cases or lose their benefits.

Please visit the website to see the Petition raised by Konstanze Allsopp to the P.M. The Petition is open until 22nd January 2008.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ME-is-real/