Queensland health are the worst on this in Australia (far as I know). Somebody with high level influence in that state government is a BPS...
Pain is also a common symptom in CFS, and fatigue in FM. A bit too arbitrary a distinction for my taste.
Their track record of bad faith, especially post-NICE & with Cochrane, is too persistent and stark and damaging for me to give them any more...
I still, after all these years, struggle with wrapping my head around the level of sheer arrogance, delusion, dishonesty, and callousness required...
A biopsychosocial treatment approach [27] is necessary Jeebus, they are just getting worse and worse.
intestinal barrier damage Interesting.
Unfortunately, they are. A predictable, and long predicted, consequence of removing falsification and adequate control from the methodological...
Mind over matter is the most insidious and tenacious belief I have ever seen in humans. We desperately want to believe that we can control the...
I watched it and it is pretty good, especially for somebody coming to it with no background in the field (far as I know). Didn't like that she...
Indeed. Any properly qualified charlatan knows it has to be a chicken suit.
Yep. Don't want to be that guy, but I have yet to see any fundamental changes in the UK for patients, at any level. Thus far it looks like...
And very deliberate. They know exactly what they are doing, and how nasty and cruel it is. That is the point. Expect a flood of crocodile tears...
As the Oxford university psychologist Dorothy Bishop has written, we only know about the ones who get caught. In her view, our “relaxed attitude”...
It is increasingly recognised that a significant proportion of patients who experience chronic inflammatory conditions, chronic pain conditions,...
The DWP say in their press release that the new changes will not be introduced until 2025 and that most existing claimants will not be affected:...
Second of my two donations done. :thumbup:
Always thought that neuroplasticity is waaaaaaay oversold, and is much more limited than its proponents claim. If it was so powerful than we...
And often don't want to, because it confronts them with the limits of their competence, and they don't know what to do about it. So it just gets...
Which is what you would expect to see in patients who are persistently misdiagnosed and mistreated for decades. It tells us absolutely nothing...
I voted "It depends". I certainly think participants should have their costs covered. Beyond that gets problematic because potentially perverse...
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