These questionnaires are just lists of all the things they believe are caused by central sensitization then asking if people have them. You...
The BPS people have been trying, and succeeding to a large extent, to get other fatiguing illnesses to believe that their fatigue is the same as...
The description of ME has been widened and widened. When I was first diagnosed it was thought to have a prevalence of about 0.5%, now we have...
My parents, born in 1929 were thin as were most people with a certain variation for genetics. My gran was overweight but she had had 13 children....
I wouldn't worry too much. Comments under articles about all sorts of things are often awful as the trolls and those who disagree are most likely...
As is typical in papers about FND I can't make sense of this statement (or much of the rest!) If they mean that people with a lot of ill health...
The case of type 2 diabetes holds a warning for ME. The explicit talk of mother fixation or an anal personality is unlikely to get very far today...
I may be using the terminology wrong, it happens when you have to work out a disease for yourself without medical input. It would have been good...
So it was useless but well tolerated :banghead::banghead::banghead: The positive bit is put first as usual but nothing else counts except it...
Maybe they don't believe it anymore, but I remember the analogy being that if a nerve is cut it often grows back where instead of being like the...
ME has always had dysautonomia as a symptom and POTS and OI are just aspects of that.
From hearing about the experiences of many people with ME I feel it is vital that new patients know it is a disease that is usually life long...
Conspiracy just means that that more than one person works together for a common goal. It only became an insult when the CIA set out to fight...
Wow, that is even worse than I thought of her! I can't watch videos and find them upsetting anyway. Good for you and Esther 12 for taking the...
Crawley gave a lecture where she talk about abuse she had experienced - in which she included the outreach from patients to the likes of Barnardos...
These blogs are really, really good. Having all these dreadful ideas in one place is a wonderful resource to use when people are talking about FND...
A number of posts have been moved from Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media. The issue of what a newly diagnosed...
Reseaarchers into FND are not playing the game and actually referring to the "disease" as a new name for conversion disorder, which is a form of...
This is the other side of the psychosomatic quack theories. The proponents have convinced doctors that patients will develop an illness if they...
That finding reflects a sane, rational response to the situation they experience. We have no treatments, a lifelong illness that can suddenly...
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