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User653592 said on 08 March 2012

By treating "IBS", primarily, as an illness caused by stress, the NHS is hampering the funding of research into this condition. Such an attitude dooms people to a lifetime of possibly unnecessary suffering. There is no scientific evidence showing that "IBS" is caused by stress, hence scientific research is needed. What little research is being funded has had some success: google "Proof that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is not in your Head". You only have to look at "Gulf War Syndrome" sufferers, an illness that is also considered psychosomatic to see that attitudes matter: this condition has received very little attention in the UK - most of the research has been carried out in the US. Is this the future for "IBS" sufferers, too - neglected and left to suffer, some in a suicidal state? Until attitudes change, until science trumps mere opinion, it is.

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