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Better, easier to read, published version here. It is very surprising the paper got published, as it appears to be a rather superficial game of "he says, she says" - bits of other papers and other people's arguments, which are described and not actually evaluated in any serious manner. It is...

Yea, I can think of way more fun ways to die. An apt time to declare "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

On twitter, Anton Mayer shared this article about Freud's patients. I know, its not about UC or about lobotomies but it is about spinning neat stories about the causes of illness that are unlikely to be true. And in Freud's case, people did actually manage to track down his more famous patients...

I think this statement is interesting. I wonder if perhaps the UC was really the only problem and she was the victim of diagnostic overloading. So because the UC was believed to be psychogenic, that would make her worries and anxieties about it disproportionate, so that could get her the labels...

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:!! Godwin's Law II: Anyone who invokes Godwin's law when no Nazis were mentioned automatically loses the argument. Godwin's Law III: Anyone who invokes Godwin's law when no Nazis were mentioned AND feels the need to tag Godwin and mention old school connections is just...

I read your review - thanks, it was great! I've been meaning to look at the book for ages, but the size of it was a bit daunting.

I do hope folks will let him go now. Am starting to worry that we're living up to our reputation as generally-to-be-avoided because we are so "vehement" and "unreasonable".

I'm not a normal MECFS patient (I think technically, I'm not one at all, since I now have an alternative diagnosis). But this vaccination killed me. Two weeks of hell, followed by three more weeks of misery. And if anyone thinks I might just have been imagining it, then my CRP levels were...

What you're actually saying is that its superfluous to neurology, psychology, sociology and alternative medicine ;) I saw that article in the Guardian trying to recruit more psychiatry registrars - there are apparently unfilled places in the UK every year. So I get the feeling the medical...

He's had such a robust response, I worry that if he gets any more responses, that may end up confirming SW's worst caricatures of us (which I'm sure he's shared with the guy in private).

This conversation sure has been great to read. We should preserve it as a sort 'S4ME moment'.

Psychiatry - the medical specialty that brought you the lobotomy But now, we have everything totally 100% right, we got the best IQs, we have the best words. Psychiatry's huge.

Conclusion: waking up is stressful. For some pathological reason, PwMEs continue to engage in this activity on an almost daily basis, probably because they are overly perfectionistic. They need careful instruction on how to modify their behaviour through a gently graded not waking up programme.

Okay, I did worry it was a bit of a digression.

Thanks. It would be great if you could provide a reference. Actually I've wanted to talk about "stress" for quite a while, so now might be a good time. I think stress, as a concept, has caused a great deal of confusion in both science and in everyday life. The concept is so vague and loose...

I don't think there's any convincing evidence that psychological stress changes your DNA. You may be overextrapolating from studies of mice that have been placed under extreme physical stress (deprived of food and water). Even the telomere shortening studies are now looking a little dubious...

Well done, I'd say. You got us all thinking :thumbsup:

This made me laugh, Luther, because this study recently found that lifetime income is negatively associated with agreeableness (that is, nice people don't get rich). Conscientiousness is, however, positively associated with income.

Quite! That's the problem in a nutshell. A soon as you have a label for some psychological construct, regardless of whether its a good or bad one, it takes on a life of its own and becomes a "fact". Yea, its worrying. Many psychologists believe personality is an empirical science. Because the...

Yes, true, what I saw in that article wasn't about personality at all, but rather attitudes (although it is concerning that he uses the terms interchangeably). He thinks welfare recipients should be discouraged from having children. I've been thinking more on the "stupid question" issue. What...