That's amazingly fast work by the scientific community. This Wuhan coronavirus made its first appearance on 31 Dec 2019, and now within 3 weeks,...
It's been discussed on ME/CFS forums before. Here is a paper.
Moderator note: Use this thread to discuss the possibility of an ME/CFS or ME/CFS-like illness following Covid-19. Initial posts have been moved...
Yes, it depends on what percentage of the population is infected with the virus. And that will depend on the evolution of the virus, and whether...
So far out of the 300 confirmed cases of this new coronavirus, 6 people have died. So presumably that's a 2% fatality rate. Ref: here. Thus if it...
A few studies have found persistent poliovirus infection in the cerebrospinal-fluid and blood of post-polio syndrome (PPS) patients: see this...
Interesting that one ME/CFS patient obtained the maximum benefits on a dose of 12 mg daily (6 mg two times per day). This is higher that the...
As Trish hints, you have be a bit careful with this definition of anhedonia, as although ME/CFS patients are unable to do certain things because...
No, rest assured that sickness behavior perspectives of ME/CFS come from the biomedical camp, not the biopsychosocial camp. Sickness behavior is...
Wow, and by complete coincidence, just after writing the last paragraph just above, I noticed a new post on PR where someone is asking why they...
Yes, I think you understand what I mean, that there are hundreds of tiny pleasures throughout the day. Even if I tidy my desk, and then I look at...
Anhedonia is in essence a lack of (or reduction of) pleasure or reward from normally enjoyable activities. That's it definition. I've only...
I think the question on the NHS website depression questionnaire is reasonably worded: It does not ask about your physical ability to do things,...
I don't doubt that the unscrupulous government lobbying of the disability insurance industry, and particularly UNUM (formerly UnumProvident),...
I guess unless you know about anhedonia, you might not get what that question was about. Ideally your doctor would understand the context of the...
I am not entirely sure who initiated the psychogenic view of ME/CFS in the 1980s. Wessely's first published paper on ME/CFS appears to have been...
In the 1970s, we had McEvedy and Beard, who proposed that the 1955 Royal Free ME outbreak was mass hysteria. These guys did not interview or even...
Sounds like nobody understood the purpose of that question. The purpose of the question is to determine if you are suffering from anhedonia — the...
Absolutely. These articles help explain how a tiny group of psychiatrists, with Simon Wessely being the chief protagonist among them, managed in...
The term "reactive depression" that Prof Edwards mentioned above I think is the correct one here, and a better term than psychogenic.
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