Cognitive therapy is not a proper treatment for CFS/ME, but there are hundreds of different medications that can help – and not just symptom-based ones, but ones that can alleviate the actual disease progress.

Exercise is extremely dangerous to people with CFS/ME and can lead to permanent relapses, even death. Recommending that people with CFS/ME exercise could thus amount to manslaughter.

Exercise therapy is a dangerous treatment for CFS. It can make people worse, sometimes for good. It also doesn’t make sense to say there is little resistance in aquatic exercise. It is much easier to move through air than water, although the effects of gravity are lessened by the buoyancy of the water. Aquatic exercise is effective in general because of the resistance of the water. However, it can be gentle enough for someone with CFS if they are already in good shape and their case is mild. For the rest of us, light yoga and tai chi are much more beneficial and less likely to cause post-exertional malaise. But someone with CFS should never push themselves to exercise when their body needs to rest.