Dr. Aimee (Amy) Nefcy

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The Neurotransmitters: Clinical Neurology Education · Beyond Tired: Understanding ME/CFS · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

No, I believe that you feel that there's a parasite under your skin.

I believe that you are feeling that there is some sort of alien thing there and that that must be so distressing.

Imagine how distressing that would be.

If you think about like that's

My ultimate terror as an ER doctor is to have some of the diseases that I see patients having.

When I have my worst nightmares, it's usually body horror.

Seeing one of my arms or legs have some kind of weird flesh-eating thing where there's holes in it and you can see down to the tissue.

Yeah.

You know, that's the kind of thing where you look at that with patients and you're like, oh, my God.

So that's the thing is you've got to put your brain into their shoes and think about what must it feel like to have this thing that is going on and not know what it is and not have an answer.

And on top of that, to have doctors tell you, you just need to believe that you're well.

I think CBT has its place.

I think that... I know.

But, you know, CBT as a term is triggering to the entire ME-CFS community.

CBT and GET, which is graded exercise therapy, they have been...

disproven to be helpful and often can be harmful in ME-CFS patients when they're used as the primary treatment modality.

We know that exercise, when it's not done within your power or energy envelope, makes people who have ME-CFS worse.

So graded exercise therapy, in theory, sounds great.

But in practice, it's not good.

It will make patients worse if they have long COVID, if they have long Lyme or, you know, chronic mono or any of the things that you want to talk about, you know, things that you might not think of as real diseases.

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