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I wonder if the Biobank could be utilised here. I hope we don’t have to wait a decade for replication (or lack thereof).

Wonderful suggestion. I’m sure they’ll volunteer without hesitation seeing as FM is all in the mind.

Excellent point. It’s one of those things that’s been grandfathered in. “Everyone knows” psychosomatic conditions exist. The purported treatments have virtually never been tested because on some level they know the results would be DEVASTATING.

Crisis caused by increasing levels of awareness that FND doesn’t exist except in the minds of some neurologists and psychiatrists who spew huge amounts of harmful effluvium.

Big if true.

Lol. Of course in their own psychobabbletherapeutic studies they do everything humanly possible to increase bias. No blinding, no active comparator arm.

I have found that over the years the nature of PEM has changed. During the severe years, any overexertion would result in flu like poisoned feeling, light sensitivity, worsening orthostatic symptoms, pain, increased heart rate, insomnia, a general feeling of overstimulation. Now it’s more like...

These sorts of articles don’t help our case. Anyone looking at the evidence objectively would conclude that it just isn’t there.

People have been writing and rewriting a variation of this paper in the depression literature since the late 1980s. This approach has yielded zero results in terms of therapeutics.

A psych told me health problems including somatisation and heart disease are caused by Type D personality. It’s almost as if they’re making it up as they go along.

Multidimensional perfectionism. Where do they come up with this shit?

This is the central problem with all research on psychotherapies.

That one got lost in QMUL databases and conveniently cannot be retrieved. :rolleyes:

I doubt very many in the general population hit the WHO recommended 10k steps. This is a highly tendentious abstract implying that Fukuda CFS pts are sick because of a sedentary lifestyle and overweight. At this point we must assume that Newton has gone full BPS.

How hard they fought to prevent the release of fully anonymised scores on various PACE questionnaires, making outlandish claims about the potential for being identified from your SF-36 score (lol) but this massive invasion of privacy and privatisation of healthcare data? No problemo.

I have had similar experiences. The only thing that lifts my mood is actually doing something practical to solve a problem, and if it's a problem that can't be solved, then focus on doing something else to distract myself. Talking endlessly about problems just makes me worse. There has actually...

Somebody doing my grocery shopping or cleaning once a month would do more for my wellbeing than ten thousand hours of counselling.

Tbh the fact that he is reduced to fighting a rearguard action so blatant and pathetic is a sign that we’re making progress. They’ve fallen back very far from their original position in the 1990s (there is no disease, CBT/GET is curative) to now saying that CBT is somewhat helpful as an adjunct...

Every time they get a diagnosis monstrously wrong they say this. "Oh well we may have missed a deadly neurodegenerative disease but in our defence the patient is still crazy."

25% misdiagnosis rate is unacceptably high IMO.