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  1. mango

    Should We Have a Better Term than Brainfog?

    "Mental trötthet" = "mental fatigue" is a common medical/scientific word for it in Swedish, in the context of traumatic brain injuries, stroke etc. They used to call it "hjärntrötthet" = "brain fatigue", which is still quite common too. (But "trötthet" literally means "tiredness"...)...
  2. mango

    Should We Have a Better Term than Brainfog?

    Same here. It's like standing in the middle of a massive library, in the dark. You know the information is there, you might even know in which book, but you can't see it in front of you.
  3. mango

    Opinion Chronic fatigue syndromes: real illnesses that people can recover from, 2023, The Oslo Chronic Fatigue Consortium

    An article by Jörgen Malmquist in SFAM's journal AllmänMedicin, issue 3-2024. ("SFAM, the Swedish Association of General Practice, is the professional and scientific college of general practitioners (family physicians) in Sweden, a non-profit organisation with about 2000 members. SFAM is...
  4. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    Part 6 about Maja. Mötet om Maja blev en chock: ”De säger att jag gör Maja sjuk” https://www.avestatidning.com/2024-10-22/motet-om-maja-blev-en-chock-de-sager-att-jag-gor-maja-sjuk/
  5. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    Part 5 about Maja. Avestahälsan om kritiken: ”Postcovid är inte beprövat och godkänt” https://www.avestatidning.com/2024-10-21/avestahalsan-om-kritiken-postcovid-ar-inte-beprovat-och-godkant/
  6. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    This article was apparently the first in a whole series of articles about Maja. Still paywalled, unfortunately. 3 articles have been published so far, several more to come: https://www.avestatidning.com/story/a4897877-dade-4ffe-9b2a-e69392b81d8b?pageSlug=fallet-maja Experten om postcovid...
  7. mango

    Gay conversion therapy

    RFSL has published a new article about conversion attempts on their website. It is available in both English and Swedish. What are conversion attempts, and why should they be prohibited? https://www.rfsl.se/en/lgbtq-facts/vad-ar-omvandelseforsok/ "According to a recent report from the Swedish...
  8. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    Paywalled article in a local newspaper: Maja, 20, lever sitt liv i en säng – blev aldrig frisk efter covid https://www.avestatidning.com/2024-10-18/maja-20-lever-sitt-liv-i-en-sang-blev-aldrig-frisk-efter-covid/
  9. mango

    Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian)

    A GoodReads review of Nobody's Empire from a reader called Morgan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6928958957
  10. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    Recorded talks and a panel discussion from this conference are now available on RME's YouTube channel (in English). Jonas Bergquist, David Systrom, Artur Fedorowski, Ingrid Gurvin Rekeland, Suzanne Vernon, Resia Pretorius. https://www.youtube.com/@rmesverige1475
  11. mango

    A pilot self-advocacy program by Awareness for POTSies

    Again, the program is not about treatments. Can you all please at least look at the material in question before you criticize it? I'm leaving this discussion now.
  12. mango

    A pilot self-advocacy program by Awareness for POTSies

    This program is not about treatments.
  13. mango

    A pilot self-advocacy program by Awareness for POTSies

    I 100% agree, I feel exactly the same about this kind of cutesifying. In Sweden some people call pwME "emmisar" and I find it extremely cringey.
  14. mango

    A pilot self-advocacy program by Awareness for POTSies

    So, just to clarify, you are criticizing the program without even having looked at the material or what the program is actually about?
  15. mango

    A pilot self-advocacy program by Awareness for POTSies

    Did you actually read the material that is being offered? Did you look at the actual sources, the scientific articles that are referenced? Or are you judging based on something else? The reason you are asked to give input is that this is a pilot program, and the survey is to evaluate...
  16. mango

    News From Jarred Younger / Neuroinflammation, Pain, and Fatigue Laboratory at UAB, From Aug 2020

    "Here is a quick update on our current clinical trials. Below are screening links for our psilocybin (for fibromyalgia) study and curcumin, stinging nettle, and resveratrol (for Gulf War Illness) study: Screening link for psilocybin and fibromyalgia study...
  17. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    An Icelandic documentary about ME. https://www.ruv.is/sjonvarp/spila/me-sjukdomurinn-ormognun-uti-a-jadri/33851/a2qg5h
  18. mango

    News from Scandinavia

    A news article today about the fact that more and more courts are letting AI do the job of masking sensitive information in judgments and preliminary investigations. With the Swedish National Courts Administration's own tool, "fewer errors will be made and the work will go faster"...
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