I agree that there are real dangers in using the 'reducing the health and welfare bill' angle, because that opens up the door to nasty dishonest...
So, more just a difference in the timing of the decline – a delay for healthy controls – than a difference in the type or shape of the decline?...
There is a profound psycho-social pathology in play for ME/CFS patients, alright. But it is secondary and contingent, it is not inherent to the...
I think there needs to be four classes of general outcome measures for any trial of treatment or management. In no particular order: 1. Income 2....
I think there is a 'not' missing from that sentence. Otherwise, yes, there is a lot going on we don't have control over. It doesn't matter how...
:D I'll take my laughs where I can get them.
Exactly. Their explanatory and therapeutic model has to assume we are delusional morons, incapable of figuring anything out without their expert...
This is a gross systems failure. There is no way the small group of hardcore psychosomatic fanatics at the core of this could have got away with...
This is what inevitably happens when subjective judgement is allowed to rule without objective constraints. The whole range of human prejudice...
I dislike the 'energy issues' conceptualisation of ME/CFS more and more. I really don't think it is energy depletion that is the problem. That...
Sometimes you just have to throw a bunch of half-plausible ideas at the wall and see what empirically sticks.
Yeah, I am coming up to 40 years in October. Basically my whole adult life. 2.5 years is a blip on that time scale. (Which in no way dismisses...
Exactly. Stop with the assumptions, and get to robustly testing them, or discarding them.
Definitely important. But... My experience is that PEM is a permanent feature. It is always there, all that changes is how hard it is cranked up....
The shorter programme is based on a new treatment model based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), where exhaustion disorder is seen as an...
I don't see an issue with adding a little extra salt to your diet, and making sure you stay adequately hydrated. Beyond that, as with [checks...
Still not allowed to donate here in Australia. (Which I don't have a problem with. Better safe than sorry.)
That was my first reaction. There simply is no excuse anymore for anybody, let alone health experts, to deny there is an extremely serious...
I have no doubt this problem has massively skewed and corrupted attempts to understand a whole bunch of health issues and their causes, including...
Somebody gets it.
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