I think that's making the assumption that impeding death will always cause depression. The thought of death does not automatically lead to...
Yes, it's good to bring up precise definitions of terms. I am not entirely sure whether the term "psychogenic" encompasses both psychological...
I am sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. As mentioned above, depression is one of the few conditions where the biopsychosocial model...
I think almost everyone knowledgable about depression would agree that both biological and psychogenic factors can cause or contribute to it. I...
I did not really understand the first paragraph of your post. The quote above seems a little self contradictory: you don't believe psychogenic...
Sure, but I am trying to make the distinction regarding the source of depression. Neurological illnesses often induce depression, and I am calling...
Those suggesting depression in ME/CFS is due to the limitations the illness places on your life: You are in effect saying that your depression...
Not once you appreciate the theory behind sickness behavior. The idea is that when animals (including humans) are sick from infection, this...
Out of 12 ME/CFS patients trying Valcyte, 6 reported a major improvement.
If you prefer it in numbers of people, then out of 35 ME/CFS patients who tried LDN, only one reported a major improvement.
In a forum poll, LDN only resulted in a major improvement in symptoms in 3% of cases, which is pretty low. (Major improvement in this poll is...
OK, then you probably appreciate the general mindset involved in alternative treatments. I think a lot of that mindset comes down to having the...
Some alternative medicine practitioners may have antivax views, and according to this paper (I am providing references for you!), this may...
When I asked Prof Lipkin whether his sequencing technique on blood samples would be able to detect enterovirus infections in the tissues, he said...
Alternative medicine is in general incredibly safe. Of course, if someone foregoes conventional medicine where it is critically important, such...
There word "again" in the title suggests alternative medicine is a common cause of death, but alternative medicine is used by around a third of...
That's possible I guess. But I think what you are saying applies to any disease which mimics ME/CFS, such as anemia, hypothyroidism, lupus,...
My feeling is that because the ICC were written at a time when the psychogenic "all in the mind" view of ME/CFS still dominated, the authors tried...
That may well be the case, but that's changing the subject. My above post showing an overlap in ME/CFS and CMS symptoms was given in answer to...
Sorry, I nearly missed this post, as I did not receive an alert that my name was @tagged. Yes, of the 55 ME/CFS patients in the survey positive...
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