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Over the years a lot of effort has been put into educating healthcare professionals about the difference between exhaustion disorder (a psychiatric diagnosis) and ME/CFS. Forum threads: https://www.s4me.info/threads/news-from-scandinavia.647/page-82#post-458628...

Diagnostic criteria for exhaustion disorder: Stressrelaterad psykisk ohälsa - Utmattningssyndrom https://viss.nu/kunskapsstod/vardprogram/stressrelaterad-psykisk-ohalsa

Sorry for using the wrong words, the brainfog is extra thick today. Always feel free to correct me, everyone. It should have said "described" not "defined", I'll edit my original post. Please read the actual official definitions with diagnostic criteria etc and read up on the current political...

(This is big news, so I made a separate thread for it. It's about exhaustion disorder/utmattningssyndrom, Elin Lindsäter of the Oslo Consortium, and more.) Big news from Sweden: Fatigue diagnosis to be disappeared...

In related news... Big news from Sweden: Fatigue diagnosis to be disappeared https://www.s4me.info/threads/big-news-from-sweden-fatigue-diagnosis-to-be-disappeared.43190/

Would anyone maybe be up to looking into the WHO ICD material, to find out if there has been any proposals by the Oslo Consortium? @Dx Revision Watch, do you happen to know anything about this change and how it came about?

Exhaustion disorder is a common or very common misdiagnosis for people with ME, and I have personally experienced it too. This is yet another reason why this really is something we all should care about. It has always been really difficult to get social security payments when you're on sick...

For more on Lindsäter's view on exhaustion disorder, here's a transcribed version of a podcast episode where she was interviewed (2024)...

More on the history of exhaustion disorder as a diagnosis (an article from 2021): Därför skenade diagnosen utmattningssyndrom https://psykologtidningen.se/2021/03/09/diagnosen-som-skenade/

Do note that this isn't some isolated thing happening only in Sweden. Members of the Oslo Consortium seem to be involved, so it concerns all of you in Norway, UK and other countries as well. If you do a search here on S4ME you will find a number of research studies by Lindsäter and others, and...

Elin Lindsäter, of the Oslo Consortium, is quoted in the article by Psykologitidningen (the psychologists' trade union and professional journal, Psykologtidningen is published by the Swedish Psychological Association). Utmattningssyndrom försvinner som diagnos...

Big news from Sweden... :cautious: According to news articles in Psykologtidningen.se and DN.se yesterday, it has been confirmed that the diagnosis exhaustion disorder ("utmattningssyndrom, UMS") is set to be disappeared in Sweden and in WHO ICD-11 in 2028. Utmattningssyndrom försvinner som...

Job ad from Karolinska, looking for an överläkare (consultant, director, head physician, senior physician?) for the post-infectious diseases clinic. Överläkare till Mottagningen för postinfektiösa sjukdomar...

A news article/radio segment (2 minutes, in Swedish), based on the Swedish Covid Association's press release: Ny mätning: Så många svenskar uppger att de har postcovid https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/ny-matning-sa-manga-svenskar-uppger-att-de-har-postcovid

Nesten ingen ME-pasienter kommer tilbake i jobb https://www.forskning.no/helse-samfunn-sykdommer/nesten-ingen-me-pasienter-kommer-tilbake-i-jobb/2464548

Press release by the Swedish Covid Association. In a post on Facebook they write: Sifo: 280 000 svenskar är drabbade av postcovid https://covidforeningen.se/sifo-280-000-svenskar-ar-drabbade-av-postcovid/ Google Translate (English).

As a member of Neuro, I'm super disappointed :grumpy: I've never seen this ugly side of them before, it really took me by surprise.

Paywalled news article. Kroniskt misstrodd https://www.flamman.se/kroniskt-misstrodd/

Thank you, everyone! Good to know I'm not the only one. Please let me know if you find a way to make the emails stop.

Anyone else getting lots of emails from Berkeley? I have received 5 of them just the last two days: from Dean Michael C. Lu, Students of Berkeley Public Health, UC Berkeley Public Health and Cori Traub. I never signed up for these emails, and they keep coming from new senders. I keep...