Stonebird

Ten Rules for an ME Activist Greg Crowhurst 9th October 2010 (permission to repost) "I have repeatedly said we should never compromise with falsehood and wickedness." Ghandi   " If you don't give up and you don't give in, you just might be okay. " Mike & the Mechanics 1. Do not  Compromise  .  Do not accept any service based upon the CDC or NICE Criteria - they have nothing to do with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. 2. Do not Compromise . Strive always to see beneath the rhetoric,   whether it be the glossy words of an ME Organization that has sold out to the psychiatric lobby or any  attempt to bamboozle patients into accepting a therapy-led  Fatigue rather than a biomedical  ME service. 3. Do not Compromise . Never be afraid to speak your truth , no matter how awkward that may be to others or how angry it might make people feel. 4. Do not Compromise  .  Never use any term to describe the  illness ap...

If anyone looks up my name on a search engine,one of the first listings they come across is an article called "Greg Crowhurst : Spinning the Web" - a defamatory piece. I was besieged by requests from the mainstream ME community to ignore the article when it came out - for it could very well have sabotaged the Judicial Review at the time. I was not that bothered anyway. Being wronged seems to be par for the course, for anyone who is brave enough to take a stand . I am proud to stand along side giants like Malcom Hooper, Margaret Williams, Kevin Short; all of us have suffered similar attacks, in fact mine is nothing compared to the abuse that has been directed at them from ME "activists ". However the wider world may not understand . The article greatly bothers my wife (for it also attacks her) and is of no help when I submit serious articles to the Nursing Press or indeed try and get my book published. Thinking laterally , I have come across this incredibly appr...