Parents of Children with Exhaustion Disease ME/CFS Clash with Doctors over Therapy

Parents of children with ME/CFS, a chronic illness that exhausts people, come into conflict with doctors when they oppose a specific treatment for their child. An inventory by the NOS shows that many scientists wonder whether this form of behavioral therapy does more harm than good. Arlette Poolen (31) knows this better than anyone. As a 15-year-old, she underwent the therapy that teaches children with ME/CFS to ignore warning signals when the b…