Depression in advanced cancer, or any cancer, I wonder how much is due to having to put on a brave front. CBT which tries to change the patient's...
I think the confusion is that they are no longer treating added anxiety, depression etc. That used to be the case but now they have decided that...
I think being told it would stop the progression of your cancer over the telephone every day might help you eat more! Though feeling rotten and...
The 1980s saw ME begin to be taken seriously as an organic disease There was a lot of research being done that would have borne fruit if he had...
Basic biology is very similar among mammals and anything which is the same in flies and mice is relevant to us. This is the sort of research that...
I think they are saying that colonisation with pseudomonas even if it is not actually causing infection can still impact exercise capacity and be...
This is the frustration of having ME. For over 50 years I have had episodes where I cannot move voluntarily. It is very embarrassing when people...
This is important because it is a good example of the wider problem with the BPS MUS, FND etc school of thought. It is a banal soundbite that...
a beautifully succinct description. I do not see how it is possible to do this. Can the subconscious make a decision like that? The addition of...
It is difficult to talk about FND because it is a mess. You can't disagree with what they say it is because they can't be pinned down to anything...
These are good points but the situation is not so simple. When Stone wrote his first FND papers there were lots of caveats especially with...
The cynic in me wonders how many of these "retired" senior staff are now doing lucrative work in the private sector as CBT is rolled out as the...
What is in my mind is the things I have to do as a duty which would once have been a pleasure. Things like ordering presents for my family at...
There is no value in this sort of review. There have not been enough (any!) proper Rcts to do a systematic review. It is the wrong place to look...
This is interesting. That definition exactly matches what happens with ME, no pleasure or reward just pain and illness, in fact it is a cost, the...
That is not the way it works. I understand what you are saying and don't disagree with what you mean but it is a way of saying things that is used...
It shows that microbes have a massive arsenal of tricks to fool our immune system so they can invade and hijack our biology. We find more and more...
I do not understand much about the details of the biology or statistics in these studies, but I do wonder if some of the results are not as...
It is being a bit picky, I know what you meant Spinoza577, but Dr Lily Chu, who is an authority on PEM, makes the distinction between post...
This is true, but distorts the facts. The risk of opioid prescribing is that some people use them to deal with other problems in their lives so...
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