They are not that hot on the Social component either other than their unevidenced claims of ‘secondary gains’ such as claiming benefits and...
It would certainly be a positive approach and promote mental wellness for millions. It might help reduce by 10% the NHS costs, or at least I...
Good to see Prof Chalder has really got her head around the concept of PEM and is so open to listening to the patient experience. (sarcasm alert)...
I was briefly confusing BSP (British Psychological Society) with BPS (bio psycho social), before realising the latter made no sense in this context.
I suppose there could be a trial with two CBT conditions, with one based on ‘BPS’ false beliefs model and one based on supporting people to adapt...
An excellent article that should be compulsory reading for all professionals likely to work with people with ME and/or Long Covid.
I wonder if a reason for this is that as parents and families become more aware of concerns about Crawly’s research that it is harder for them to...
This is particularly relevant given the Bristol researchers seem to be increasingly basing their research on child subjects who have had a year or...
Sorry a bit of a tangent, but .... It seems to me that there is enormous problems in defining what CBT is in practice. My understanding, at least...
Thank you to @InitialConditions for your work on this, and also to the other commenters so far. I am not with it today and am struggling to get...
This rush of people signing up to this research project rather contradicts the assertion by some BPS researchers that people with ME are anti...
I echo what @Daisybell says.
It is impressive that advocates of somaticisation can attempt to spin evidence contradicting their belief system as supporting those beliefs. The...
Surely they are saying all evaluations of “behavioural and exercise interventions” are inherently crap, but because we can’t do anything about it...
Prof Crawley explicitly argues this in press interviews, which possibly why she is also an advocate for the Lightning Process, as well as for...
Dr Shepherd is an ME sufferer, a GP and Medical Advisor to the British MEA, who, despite the obvious concerns about this statement, is usually...
‘Concord fallacy’ is the idea of having already invested a lot in something the best way forward is to invest more. Also within ‘cognitive...
Thank you, for this important link, I had previously read this, but had forgotten, though am not surprised by, how high, both the incidence of...
Can we say with out current level of knowledge that POTS is a symptom of ME, or only that orthostatic intolerance is probably a relatively common...
Presumably this lack of flexibility is a feature of most benefit systems, insurance systems and work place pensions internationally. For example...
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