The purpose of this sort of work seems to be to subsume ME/CFS within their model of FND.
Wow, it didn't take long for these grifters to expand their grift operation to the new goldmine of rapidly growing numbers of post-covid ME/CFS...
Surprisingly ok letter considering the BPS positions he has previously taken. Apart from the false claim that 1% of the population has ME/CFS, it...
I think another part of it is that our diagnosis is highly stigmatised and therefore very low status. People, consciously or not, don't want to be...
It's quite an insidious trick that guys like this are up to and I'm sad to say it's working to hoodwink a lot of people. They present themselves...
You're right Mij. When I was in the process of becoming disabled & diagnosed, all the doctors, nurses, psychologists etc. that I had worked with...
It's like a deja vu seeing a whole new cohort of perplexed, frightened people who until recently thought they had rights and that the medical...
Lol
Years ago this guy published a study testing his persistent arousal hypothesis of CF using clonidine. If I recall correctly, in that study...
Fauci and the other NIH swine were dismissing ME/CFS for decades before this grifter arrived on the scene.
The aim of these newfangled names for MUS is to get the patient to accept the diagnosis.
So basically cats get better healthcare than humans with unexplained neurological symptoms.
Good stuff. Quite a few metabolic disorders can present as psychiatric, at least initially.
The scatterplot looks like there's nothing there to hang your hat on.
"rehab" :arghh:
Yup.
Speaking of warts & quackery, about 20 years ago I got one on my thumb. It was there for about a year and drove me insane with the constant urge...
What on earth... Something's gone terribly wrong somewhere along the way in the medical arena.
The worst thing about having ME is that you can't even accept counselling support provided by the state because a) the energy expended to get to...
I'm so sorry to hear about your nightmare, Graham. I hope you get to the bottom of this. It sounds like continuity of care in your area leaves...
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