"The main focus isn’t to ameliorate physical health symptoms, although this is a common misunderstanding." That is a complete misunderstanding of...
"“Psychological therapy is useful for a range of medical conditions, with a strong underpinning evidence-base supporting its use." This is...
I've had a chance this morning to read back over this thread. I hope the guidelines have been overhauled and are quite different in content and...
"I believe - if I'm not mistaken - that being told to get a job and being told also that I've had extensive testing are part of guidance given to...
To miss such an obvious presentation with red flag symptoms without as much as a simple blood glucose test is shocking. I'd recommend the...
Wow Have you complained
That's a shocker. That's belief, not fact
Heavens what a piece of wooo hooo. I was diagnosed with chronic Lyme in 2005 along with a few other tick borne infections. Since then I have,...
This fits with my experience pretty much spot on when I was still trying to function and keep going / working. The effort involved was immense...
Spot on
Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm away for a couple of weeks but I hope to be less headachy on my return to pen my concerns to IAPT directly....
I'd love it if you could write to the authors and help them out
The psychologisation of medical mystery has a long history and I have only heard of one sincere attempt at apology. A friend of mine's mother was...
I think you hit the nail on the head Joan Crawford Counselling Psychologist
Wow shocking attitude Quite some opinion
I have supported patients (ME and others) whose medical records/notes have been inaccurate / misleading. Sometimes this can clearly be in error /...
Doing nothing at times can be really detrimental and the opposite true too in other circumstances. I understand 'First, do no harm' in the...
There is often a lot of confusion / conflation of the concepts of 'feeling better' and 'being better'. Two different things. One reason why...
Ha ha maybe I should write to both of them with my recovery story (largely recovered anyway - generally...) This required correct diagnoses...
And how that fits with "First, do no harm" baffles me...... At best poor quality, lazy communication can be to blame. As in: For example, a...
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