@PsychotropicDC I like how you blocked me on my @PSSD_Info account lol. Anyways, it's honestly hard for me to believe that Altostrata herself would claim "No one has ever said CFS & protracted psychotropic withdrawal are the same" -- there are a ton of medical professionals (and some patients) arguing some version of this (they may not always explicitly say PW = CFS, but they argue that the same "functional"/psychosomatic/etc. processes underlie both [& other CFS-adjacent conditions like fibro]). I'm out here actually presenting the evidence (also informed by personal experience with both) to medical professionals on why they are not the same and apparently it's block worthy lol. Here is a patient arguing (some version of) this on Mad in America. You stated in the comments there: "To propose 'a psychological theory, The Mindbody Syndrome (TMS)…is the ultimate cause of protracted withdrawal' is ahistorical, untethered to facts, and objectionably callous towards those who are incapacitated by the neurobiological effects." Well, a lot of medical professionals (and some patients) are going to continue proposing just that (or some variation of it) as long as people don't recognize the differences between PW and "central sensitization syndromes" like CFS/fibro/etc. because people like this guy who rapidly recovered with a "mind-body" approach and thought they were still suffering from PW (he very well could have been at the outset and then developed a "central sensitization syndrome"--or who knows, maybe even a genuine psychosomatic/"conversion" disorder in his case--I don't want to speculate too much on his individual case) will say that they recovered from PW this way. So if you don't want to get into gaslighting patients and saying things like "Actually you didn't recover this way, it was probably just a coincidence" (as the ME/CFS community likes to do with the countless patients who have recovered with similar approaches--although the other favorite is "You likely never had *real* ME/CFS to begin with," despite it being a symptom-based diagnosis with no diagnostic test), you may want to attend to the evidence I'm presenting on a theory for "central sensitization syndromes" that actually accounts for mind-body recoveries (and a bunch of other features of the disorders), so you can say to people like this guy something along the lines of "Hey, I believe what you're saying about your personal experience, but you likely didn't have PW at the time you recovered; you may have had X (or Y, Z)." Or not (and just block me on this account too). Whatever this was, it was def. not a clear-cut PW case: "Back when withdrawal sensations were slowly building, I suffered a back injury. The injury quickly healed, but the pain didn't go away. Chronic pain eventually spread around my entire body and debilitated me to the point where I was partially bedridden for 5 years...withdrawal sensations overlapped with pain sensations; I often couldn't tell which was which. I applied the [Sarno] mind-body approach to pain, and it worked. 5 years of debilitating pain just gone. But...to my surprise, protracted withdrawal sensations also went away at the exact same time." madinamerica.com/2023/12/a-m…