Trial By Error: Joan McParland's Lightning Process Experience
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- 10 years
- Published
- Aug 2019
Summary
She took a three-day Lightning Process course (10am-2pm daily, costing GBP880), an NLP-based technique using standing on paper circles, affirmations, and rhymes, after ten years of severe ME/CFS. Participants, including her, were instructed to tell themselves and others they were cured regardless of their actual condition and to stop contact with other ME sufferers. None of the four ME sufferers in her course recovered, and she experienced a severe relapse afterward. She described feeling "like a fraud and a liar" and became depressed, emotions she attributes partly to the Lightning Process experience itself. No later improvement or successful reattempt is mentioned; the account ends with ongoing harm rather than any recovery.
What they credit
Credits Lightning Process, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP).
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