Denial is a hell of a drug.
is now understood to fundamentally alter the body’s ability to generate and use energy. We don't know yet if this is an energy generation or an...
No argument there. I just meant if one is going to use intolerance then activity is a more inclusive and accurate word to use with it.
Just another reminder that we often don't know what we don't know. The old unknown unknowns problem.
IIRC, most studies don't look at severe patients. I agree about being careful of using terms like exercise intolerance. Activity intolerance is...
This, plus simply refusing to accept any adverse judgement on the sacred PACE and continually re-citing it to give it legitimacy, appears to be...
I felt the same when I first started learning about the situation and history of it all more than 30 years ago, and it still feels the same today....
While we may not yet be in a position to do something similar yet, this has certainly help expose systemic failures and cruelty in our current...
Not just from absenteeism, but also from reduced performance of those who physically make it into the office/factory/etc.
and shows exactly how far we have to go to unburden the ME community from this cruel culture of misinformation. And the vicious decades-long...
It is characterised by persisting patterns of physical symptoms that cannot be better explained by other physical or mental conditions. It is...
I have long been of the view that most of what we see and know so far about ME is the patient's physiological and behavioural reaction to the...
So it isn't deconditioning. Who knew? Identify and interrogate the assumptions is the first step in assessing any hypothesis. The deconditioning...
Cognitive restructuring (i.e. modifying unhelpful thoughts) Who decides what is an 'unhelpful thought'? The sheer hubris required to be able...
Piss off, 'doctor'. You have dined out on our suffering for far too long. Go find an honest job. Some things should be cancelled, like this garbage.
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/01/24/acu-seeds-dragons-den-2/
In the case of something like illness anxiety, where it’s pretty clear that there’s not an underlying serious disease, Spot the age-old problem...
Yes, yes, yes. All very interesting. But can she realign my Chakras with the Eternal Cosmic Oneness? It takes a properly qualified charlatan to do...
It is, in principle at least, amenable to more objective measures. How practical that might be is a different story.
They love claiming they are both the victims and the heroes of the story, when they are neither.
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