Using that painting as illustration is the cherry on the probable mud cake btw. :emoji_cherries: I've read a lot of old ME- and ilness -related...
This freedom-to-question rang a bell, so I went looking. And indeed, it reminded me of a bit from the opinion piece by the Oslo chronic fatigue...
It specifically says on the tin it is designed to monitor motivation (in anhedonia) without it being influenced by (depression-type) fatigue. The...
Btw (related to my post #568 above), I don't believe this has been posted here, but apparently Avindra Nath spoke (by video) on a Finnish BPS long...
I don't agree: not only do I not understand how they came to say that they "demonstrated" that "a brain abnormality makes it harder for those with...
Thank you for making a good summary. I'd like to highlight this: The test was designed for anhedonia, to "test the relationship between...
I know right?
Indeed. I consider the material written from the bps ideology scientific disablism: it makes prejudiced harmful views seem acceptable and...
Indeed. Using EEfRT as saying something significant about non-depressed ME patients seems bull to me (it was never meant to do that), and what...
I understand the EEfRT should be set up to avoid such limitations, as it is meant to measure purely motivation in MDD patients, but I was...
Again, the EEfRT focusses on anhedonia in people with major depression. And for that it uses "the proportion of hard task choices" as a metric....
a) Twitter user Zedsrigil (Sunsweptforest) wrote a good thread on the use of the EEfRT, making clear how ridiculous it is. Twitter. [SPOILER]...
Skimming through the first part of the protocol, it looks like they did not manage to explain their intentions well in their abstract...
I'm guessing Wild Type, the original Sars-CoV-2 strain.
Also, the effects of rape are intense and life-altering, particularly in the period just after. (It calms down after that, although triggers can...
By the way, there's a special place in hell for those using the term "sensitization" with regard to rape victims.
This bps movement is constantly looking for ways to justify and promote their ideology and the presence of it in health care. Like others...
Pure evil. Patients become victims of their perpetrators twice: first when it happened, and then when it's weaponized against then to dismiss...
ME Centraal just posted a participant report on the Long Covid symposium that was held on 19 October in Amsterdam. GT translate version...
(This hostility towards medicine is the basic stance of the bps movement btw. I come across it regularly when looking at old documents relating to...
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