I wonder if these attempts to find a link between emotions and fatigue are due to a misunderstanding of what patients are actually experiencing....
The acute flu is worse than my ME and obvious. My ME is insidious and, at low activity levels, causes only mild symptoms that aren't visible. It...
Having the flu every now and then is sufficiently different from having ME all the time. The flu doesn't give you delayed reaction to exertion,...
The root of the misunderstanding of ME is this: normal people can comprehend difficulty with intense exertion because of their experience with...
We need a test to document the inability to sustain exertion over time. Something that can show that in comparison to an average person of the...
Can you elaborate on this? Is it for example the idea that everyone experiences fatigue, but that ME/CFS have somehow trained their perception of...
In my opinion, retrospectively inventing an inspiring narrative can occur in the reconstruction phase of one's life, after the illness has...
I was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy via skin biopsy. I'm trying to understand my health issues and I'm wondering if it's possible to have...
But the brain is a physical organ. And co-occurrence of physical changes with mental illness is entirely consistent with a view of illness where...
My dislike for psychological and psychosomatic approaches was the result of its failure to help and the harm it caused. Claiming that a person...
The mention of Whiskott-Aldrich makes me want to ask if this is potentially closely related to the WASF3 finding? WASF3 is the Wiskott-Aldrich...
I haven't looked at the files, but my guess is that the .raw files are the reads of the mass spectrometer. In the Data Processing Protocol section...
I'm feeling more secure about romantic relationships now and have opened more to people. I'm able to be affectionate and warm and show genuine...
Something similar to learned helplessness, then. That is how it must look to the outside to people unaware that others can have bodies that don't...
Isn't this just a less blunt way of saying that disability is caused by attitude to the problem, not the problem itself? I think he's just...
It sounds a bit like "physiological dysregulation predicts later physiological dysregulaton by another name". The usual circular thinking in the...
He keeps asserting that PEM is caused by the brain learning to respond to activity with symptoms. There isn't any evidence of this anywhere as far...
Can you describe it?
I have both diagnoses and have wondered whether my ME/CFS might have been misdiagnosed autism. I ended up rejecting this idea. Autism is...
Telling a child that their emotions are causing serious chronic symptoms is child abuse, unless it was actually true. It sets these children up...
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