What about the patients whose agency has been diminished or withdrawn by psychiatric illness? How is the system going to help somebody without...
There's nothing worse than mentally ill people writing long essays to convince themselves and other mentally ill people that mental illness isn't...
The mere notion that CBT could or should be used in a disorder as serious and impervious to rational argumentation as psychosis is pretty...
Ranitidine did nothing for me but cimetidine (another H2 antagonist) had a noticeable positive effect. I know two other people with CFS who...
Unsurprising.
I'm surprised to see water aerobics recommended for ME/CFS. Personally, no activity makes me weaker and more orthostatically challenged than being...
Mine were low end of normal range, just under 300. GP of course dismissed it as “normal” but I was alarmed given how many symptoms of B12...
Back when my ME was becoming moderate (later severe) and I was still trying to push myself to work not knowing WTF was going on, my legs were...
Good point. Just shows the dangers of continuing use of CDC criteria. Neurological and GI symptoms are part and parcel of many people's...
No. It's an open access journal Scientific Reports which is part of the Nature publishing group but the bar for publication is drastically lower...
Wow. CBT = theater of the absurd
I don't think there's any evidence of this. I think that the heart palpitations and other issues have nothing to do with the aetiology of...
The reply is reassuring.
Agreed. Lack of initiative/drive tends to travel with lack of pleasure/anhedonia (both underpinned by dopaminergic reward pathways), not...
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