If people disagreeing with the wonderfulness of CBT or GET are accorded their academic or professional status this undermines the narrative of the...
Thank you for sharing this link @Caroline Struthers
Taught bias Coached response bias Response coaching in subjective measures Coached self reporting bias Experimenter trained modification of...
When are the proponents of central sensitisation going to actually propose objectively measurable signs of their belief system? If they are...
It is interesting that the value of a scientific theory/approach is its ability to predict the future. Those that are expressing surprise at the...
Not only did he retire (an aside, it would be interesting to measure the rate of articles published pre and post retirement, and similarly with...
I think we have a consensus that appropriate rest and avoiding PEM are important to avoid worsening ME. But we lack a consensus as to whether...
This article is about the problems of controlling psychological research, including how ‘active controls’ may or may not help. These are issues...
Increasingly the bulk of CBT research in relation to ME has abandoned the idea of active controls. It feels like the psycho ME/CFS researchers...
Perhaps a tangent, but the things I wished I had been told about early on in my ME, and which getting on top of actually makes a difference to my...
We have a number of unanswered questions in relation to this: What if any are the differences between ME and post viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS),...
I don’t really understand the process, but it sounds rather like a ‘fishing exercise’ if you will pardon the pun: Not clear what either no...
It is even more ironic in that BPS advocates argue because CFS is solely assessed and diagnosed on the basis of self reported subjective measures,...
It did end up in the courts, though my friends had not been concerned about compensation, rather sorting out what went wrong, both in surgery and...
I suppose it is very hard to identify the extent of this problem, because it is not something doctors would normally record. I guess you rarely...
I am reading the original “But I was told that they don’t treat patients with fibromyalgia, like me, regardless of what they come in for” as the...
The Times has published Dr Shepherd’s response to the problematic article ‘Why is Britain the Long Covid Capital of the World. His most telling...
I agree, in retrospect the most important things I could have been told about in the early days of my ME were in order of importance: PEM...
Not fully read it yet, and everyone else may be familiar with this review article, but if not it may be relevant to this discussion “Chronic...
Please not just more use of questionnaires!
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