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Mickel and Reverse Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - P3

Mickel Therapy and Reverse Therapy represent a genuine breakthrough in treating M.E / CFS, and I reccomend anyone with M.E / CFS to try it.

They have established principles for the treatment, such as not discussing your messages with others, (discussion is likely to lead to analysis which is counter productive), and sessions should be conducted with just the client and therapist present (because the presence of a third party is likely to prevent an entirely honest exchange of views). These rules were devised from the experience of previous sessions, and are worth sticking with because they should increase the effectiveness of your treatment.

Therapists and clients are not perfect of course. Both will have some baggage and may struggle with the essential simplicity of the method. Therapists and clients need to remember that, particularly in the early stages, clients can be very defensive about criticism - after all the whole idea of Hypothalamitis is that the body/mind has gone into a defensive overdrive! More therapists are being trained who are ex-clients, and I'm sure the experience of having gone through the process and knowing what having the illness felt like will only help.

Lessons beyond M.E / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In Mickel Therapy and Reverse Therapy there should be no sense that the client is culpable for his/her illness. Most likely the progression of M.E / CFS is a product of the way we live, particularly our sedentary lives with a wide variety of stresses. Our basic needs such as food and shelter seem pretty secure, but as I mentioned in the weight training section, modern life offers as many stresses as it does ways to make life easier. What these therapies show us is that these stresses are as real to the body/mind as the threat from Sabre Toothed Tigers was to our ancestors. Our ancestors had the choice to run away or get eaten - fight or flight - apparently not a great choice but the human body has evolved over millions of years to make an immediate response to stress.

So consider this: If you work in an office and have something important to do (when is anything in an office ever marked 'Not Important!') and people are constantly phoning and interrupting your work, frustrating your attempts to get your task completed, your body/mind will try to generate a reaction - maybe to pick up the phone and throw it out the window, or run out of the office screaming 'Why can't I get some peace and quiet!!'.

Of course nobody ever takes either option because it would get them fired. On the other hand your body/mind knows there is a possible chain of events behind all this - fail to complete the important task and maybe you'll get fired anyway; maybe you won't get another job; maybe then your marriage/relationship will break up; maybe then you'll loose your home; maybe then you'll go hungry etc, etc. No matter how confident you are of your position, we all know these things are possible, if unlikely.

So your leg muscles and your arm muscles are constantly being primed for action to help you get your job done, but due to office etiquette, that action - throwing the phone out the window - never takes place. If this happens day after day, and if your bodies' defences are already raised because of a virus or an injury, the body gets even more defensive and demands more of a response. Even if you move to a better job, or work off your frustrations on the Squash court, because this resolution is not linked to the ringing phone at the time, the body/mind may believe this potential threat to its security has not been resolved. As a result it can start off the loop of feedback that leads to M.E Chronic Fatigue syndrome and Fibromyalgia.

Back to wearing rabbit skins?

All very depressing. But I'm not suggesting we should all go an live in caves. I like my cable tv and my central heating! However RT does show that stress management is about more than preventing high blood pressure. Maybe we need to consider how our way of life creates unecessary stress which, unfortunately, the body/mind is compelled to react against. With estimates of anything up to 1.5% of the population affected by M.E / CFS, most of them unable to work, that is a serious dent in the economy - surely there is a better way? Everyday stresses are more than just inefficient, they are a major public health issue.

On the next page are links to the two companies, followed by an update.

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