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I typically feel better in the early stages of a cold or flu, before it hit full strength. Usually only for 24 hours or so. I noticed that before I was diagnosed with, or even knew about, ME/CFS.

There is no 'feel' about it. The disbelief and mistreatment is very real and pernicious. It is not merely dismissive and unsupportive. It has extremely serious adverse consequences for patients.

Way too little, way too late, BMJ. You have blood of millions of cruelly destroyed lives on your hands via your unrelenting unapologetic uncritical support for the psychosomatic cult and its fraudulent claims, and helping it to take such deep root in the entire governance structure. This is the...

all grants for pathobiology studies that RECOVER funded in 2022 and 2023 were canceled this week. Patients, in the USA at least, are being handed straight back to the psycho-behavioural gang to do as they wish. Except it will be worse this time. We finally start getting somewhere, and then...

I agree that any explanation has to cover both abrupt and more gradual remissions. The word 'remission' could also be a bit (unintentionally) misleading. I don't think that a modest short-term improvement (hours-days, maybe a few weeks?) could be called a remission, nor that it requires any...

This. The USA's loss will be the rest of the world's gain.

First rule of Psychworld: Deny error in proportion to the error and its consequences.

To explore perceptions of... ...GPs It's perceptions all the way down.

for patients where routine diagnostic methods of medicine do not explain their problems and conventional therapy does not meet with the desired effect, a consistent psychosomatic approach is a necessity. 'If we cannot find a cause and do not have an effective treatment, it must be...

Future research should focus on education and standardized guidelines to enhance patient care. A better start might be identifying physicians with these appalling attitudes and throwing them out of the profession.

Not even that much. It is 'true' for no more reason than they want it to be. Because if it isn't, they are completely discredited, and unemployed.

“I am excited to see what therapies develop as a result of this study and expand our knowledge of treatment for this condition.” There are some words in this game that I regard as warning signs. A researcher/clinician being 'excited' about their latest idea is definitely one of them.

"Psychological disorders are just as real as physical disorders you guys." Good thing nobody is arguing otherwise, and never have. The argument has always been about misdiagnosing, and hence mistreating, conditions as psychogenic when they are in fact biogenic. But apparently that is too...

Certainly not suggesting it is all cases, or even most. But I don't think we should rule it out at this stage. If anything, the evidence so far suggests to me that it is quite likely to happen in a significant number of cases. Which would also include some people who stay in that prodromal...

From the study abstract: "Public transfers started increasing several years before diagnosis and stabilized at a high level after." Now that is interesting. It suggests two non-exclusive, and maybe synergistic, possibilities: First is that the diagnostic process is inadequate and so is...

I agree. We have to point out both internal inconsistencies in their model itself, and external inconsistencies with the evidence/data. Not in order to persuade the psychosomatic club to change their position – they have made it very clear that they are a completely lost cause, and are going to...

Banning masks. :facepalm:

I can picture the article titles: Terminal diagnosis as self-fulfilling prophecy. Immortality through denial. Acceptance of death: Psychosomatosis par excellence?

Not sure we can say that for certain. It is possible – I think actually quite likely – that there is a more subtle pattern going on in pre-onset health status for many patients that actually shows sub-par/optimal performance which is being masked by other factors, including lifestyle...

I am strongly of the view that a huge chunk of back pain (and probably some other chronic symptoms) can be managed, and sometimes eliminated, by better mattresses, chairs, and footwear. In particular customised ones. All the engineering & materials tech exists to do it, but it hasn't made it...