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...
Crisis caused by increasing levels of awareness that FND doesn’t exist except in the minds of some neurologists and psychiatrists who spew huge...
Big if true.
Lol. Of course in their own psychobabbletherapeutic studies they do everything humanly possible to increase bias. No blinding, no active...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How hard they fought to prevent the release of fully anonymised scores on various PACE questionnaires, making outlandish claims about the...
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...
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...
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...
25% misdiagnosis rate is unacceptably high IMO.
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