Lol. I went through years where I was just the same. I consider myself at the phase beyond non 24, and it does not have a definition or name yet....
Sleep can be very messed up with ME. My own situation was similar to yours at one time but has been much more messed up than that. I do not know...
Conversion disorder is one of the last vestiges of Freudian psychiatry. We have moved past most of the rest, aside from some holdouts. There is...
What he called nonscience, and later was called pseudoscience.
Yeah, I think its dangerous terminology and is probably misused a lot anyway.
Yep. This is however an issue with how EBM is commonly practised, not how its supposed to be done. These are issues on evidence that are...
The issue in this thread is not whether CBT might work in individual cases, but whether or not any claim to it being gold standard is warranted....
Yes. However with a well designed study and objective measures then many of these issues are minimised. None of that fixes the issue of asking the...
Gold standard for me = methodologically sound, double blinded, randomized, placebo controlled trial, with objective outcomes. I have not...
Transparency and accountability.
@Samuel many of us have issues swallowing, it seems to be a common feature of ME. This can include food sticking and not going down. I have to...
I suspect this might be a confirmatory test. If its not confirmed, you probably don't have ME. You might have a particular CFS subtype, that is a...
I will need to read this paper a few more times before I say anything, but this test might be used as a possible confirmatory test for CFS, and...
I used to have a constant store throat, and had it for many years. Then for over a decade it went away. In the last several years it came back,...
What I found most interesting was that it referred to strictly defined CFS as a disease, repeatedly. It also mentioned post exertional issues. CFS...
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