Perhaps you can clarify the basis of these treatments. The way I understand this is that these are treatments designed to find a psychological cause of ME?
Okay I'll try my best
I'll go through each one individually
With the lightning process, they gave me a technique to change my thoughts
It was something like - stop - notice your thoughts - choose the pit or choose the life you love and then take action, there's a physical action to it, so you'd stand on different spots, left for negative, right for positive etc, so I'd choose the life I love and I'd do more and crash and they'd blame me
For Mickel Therapy it was quite similar but it was about emotions at first and then they changed it to 'keys to health' which made it a bit more complicated
So the first time I'd do it, I'd have to be aware of every emotion, they told me there's only five emotions - joy, lack of joy, anger, grief or fear.
So for example the goal would be to say feel boredom and then take action, so I could be at home feeling bored, search my 'body mind' for what it wants and take action, so I may go to the shop or walk the dog etc, it was going okay for me but nothing spectacular really
Then they switched from emotions to 'keys to health'
Key 1 - was create boundaries
Key 2 - was a facilitator key which made it quite complicated
Key 3 was put yourself first
I'd get in a lot of arguments and eventually I'd crash, it's like they turned a non complicated therapy into a complicated one for no good reason, it was odd, again when I crashes they'd blame me and shut down on me, I never actually spoke to Dr Mickel, the therapists were difficult to deal with and quite judge from my experience, my main crash came when I decided I wanted a career as I was still quite young at the time and the stress overwhelmed me but this was my fault too it felt like. Another time they told me I was bored in the evening, which was true, I got a driving job and I crashed with stress, but this was my fault
Reverse therapy was quite similar, it was a bit better as they would give you a root cause and have a conversation with you, rather than a set of 'keys' they weren't reading from a script as much, it cured me for a few hours after my second session, but when I took action I crashed, I decided I wanted to live in a new city, I was younger and the stress of it made me crash and again they blamed me,
Both of them I found the therapists quite manipulative and judgemental and they'd often pass you from one therapist to the next, it felt unprofessional, at first it was two doctors, then they seemed to employ a load of energy healers types who gossiped and just confused me, at first then two therapies were combined, I went to Edinburgh then london, then Liverpool, then Warrington, then a few people on Skype etc, it was exhausting.
With the optimum health clinic, I couldn't afford the nutritional course but I did the 90 day therapy one. It started off okay, they taught me a technique to slow down my mind chatter, which I found interesting, it is something I have a lot and I learned about the stress response etc, the second session was about emotions, I learned I was bored in the evening, I started to go to some football games and I found it quite stressful, maybe because I was working and heading off on the train for an hour was a bit too much, I crashed and yeah they blamed me as well and shut down on me, but they told me to act on my emotions, which I did and when it backfired they blamed me
I'm not sure what else to say really, hopefully I've worded it well, but that's been my experience and how I've crashed each time etc