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I'm familiar with some of the names of the secondary authors on the 400-page article, and some, like Peter Kinderman, I've already heard of in connection with this strong anti-psychiatry perspective. He is (or was) the BPS chair, and when he came into that position, was quite vocal in his...

I'm not sure I know enough about the BDD criteria to make a judgement here. I don't think any of the statements I quoted rested on incorrect information about classification systems, but I appreciated you providing us with the correct information, its always good to be well informed.

I thought that was odd too. I know I have a pretty high resting heart rate, and I've heard quite a few others here say the same.

Loved the opening para: And this line, so true - look at the authors in that reference! And this one:

Okay, sure, but this is a task-related fMRI study, they ought to have proper theoretically motivated reason for choosing the task they did. The Stroop is "hard", but then so too are lots of tasks. Why did they pick that? First thing that came to mind? The Stroop is a language control task - its...

Oh, isn't it so annoying when you develop a wonderful programme and those naughty patients just refuse to do what's good for them!

Since this is a task-related fMRI study, what you're seeing in the maps is not absolute blood oxygen uptake, but a difference score (task minus control). So you're seeing how much additional oxygen the brain is taking up during the key (interference) condition of the task, over and above what...

Interesting study. I'm not familiar with the SampEn measure they used, but from what they say, it appears to be a measure of neural processing efficiency. The main conclusion of the study was that CFS patients are less efficient at recruiting neural resources to accomplish a challenging task...

I thought some of the cases were odd examples to choose. One guy was denied treatment because he couldn't pay, and that's awful (that's the US for you), but its not patient profilling. One woman refused vaccines to her child, and it would appear the doctor took a poor view. Agreed, patients...

I don't know about you, but I'm as sloppy as hell and a bit of a loser. :rolleyes:

This is such a contentious area, and there are also big market interests on both sides (keeping the internet pharmacies open and closing them down). So its really hard to know where the truth lies But I saw an article a year or so ago, about an actual study done by some health authority, which...

Yes, its outrageous what you see in some of this Health Psychology work. Such negative judgements: catastrophic thinking enhances perceived pain in RA, excessive rumination is the cause the fatigue in lupus, and so on. I think PwMEs imagine that the psycs are fully on board with these other...

Yes, back in the 602 ad 70s, in CBT's heyday, Aaron Beck proposed that people with depression had incorrect, negative beliefs about themselves and their future prospects. But then in the 80s, we discovered that depressed people actually rate their competence and future prospects more...

I prefer some of the newer techniques like ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy). It is pretty much how it sounds. It starts with the premise that your thoughts and feelings are fundamentally okay, its not wrong to think/feel that way, and how can we intervene to help move you to a better...

Yes, I agree, therapy can be helpful. My only problem is with therapy that adheres to the principles of CBT specifically. (exception to this is entirely behaviourally-oriented CBT e.g. graded exposure treatment for phobias). I just hear a lot of PwMEs talk about how "nice" and "helpful" CBT is...

@Jonathan Edwards, I just saw your comment about the Edwards et al predictive coding model. Please allow me the honour of summarising it for you! Predictive coding is all the rage at the moment in cognitive neuroscience, so these authors decided they would borrow from that literature to create...

I would also like to point out that CBT is still CBT, whatever your underlying illness model is. And that's not very nice. One of its primary guiding principles is that psychological problems are a product of dysfunctional cognitions and beliefs, and that those need to be "corrected" by the...

You are very generous here I think ;). But I've read so many of these now, you get to pick up on the subtext very quickly. ".. partners and family members can offer valuable support both on an emotional level and in promoting health-related lifestyle changes. " (as you noted, very clear what's...

I think its an effective article, in the sense that it presents a laughable caricature of that particular mindset. Most people who don't know anything about ME will be shocked at the way Kristiansen arrogantly dismisses transgender issues, and will be immediately sceptical of everything else...

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:!!