They were the reason, in that all government funding for biomedical research stopped and all was given to psych research instead. (Eg, PACE which...
Heh, yes, I remember it being called Royal Free Disease - I was a toddler at the time of that outbreak and remember hearing it referred to as that...
Thank you for the good explanation. I guess what it comes down to, is that the original term ME no longer means what it used to (eg, the Ramsay...
This is puzzling me too. When I got ME in 1983 it was alternatively known as 'Post-Viral Syndrome' and defined as being the result of a viral...
Oh my gosh, can they not hear how stupid that sounds/is? Why not "Drinking bleach may help some sufferers from long Covid but, unless we fund...
I have synesthesia, since I was a small child. I don't find that it ties up with light & sound sensitivity for me, they seem to be two separate...
This is a very good point. Having obtained my notes a while back, I was horrified to see they consisted almost 100% of...
Thank you so much for your dedication to helping those with this much-neglected disease. Your work is important and very appreciated.
It's so weird how these types of articles keeping popping up since the new NICE Guidelines, I wonder if they're orchestrated by the SMC or other...
Oh my, watched it and truly feel embarrassed for both of them. Of course they disabled comments on the video. AND, YouTube has this new policy of...
I think if that happened to me, I'd have to give the doctor a big lecture on the meaning of fatigue. Because it sure doesn't describe my symptoms....
Wow. The author, Dr Bannister, was my consultant at Royal Free Hospital in the 1980s after I got severe ME in 1983. My GP had referred me to Dr...
I do know what you mean, they feel they need to couch things in vague terms unless/until they can get some lab test result that shows something...
Having seen my NHS notes a while back, it's full of 'She thinks she has [such and such]' or 'She feels [such and such]'. Why not simply 'She...
Am completely bewildered as to how these authors think there's a link between serious viral illness and kleptomania. Very off-the-wall.
Now, that's interesting. Would ME/CFS be considered a physical deficit? If so, all those newspapers using stock photos of young healthy...
It was Wessely quoting a Mayo Clinic doctor:
Thanks for the Twitter link for Gamers For ME, will follow. Yes, Fallout NV had some of the best and most memorable characters ever. It was an...
The term 'gaslighting' isn't used in the films. I'd guess that the term was just later derived from the title.
And the 1944 one was a remake, of the original Brit film made in 1940. The 1940 one is in public domain, so you can watch it on YouTube and see...
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