Would Caroline's response to David Tovey's response to her complaint, warrant a thread of its own? It is gripping stuff and appropriately...
Given it is one of his Sharpe's standard responses to accuse critics of not having read what they obviously have read, this would seem an...
There is an interesting study here looking at how the social context of bad and misleading BPS research adversely effects the well being and...
Is defining symptoms as 'subjective' a subjective exercise? Who is being 'subjective' the reporting patient or the diagnosing doctor? If pain...
"FM as a stand alone diagnosis is however rare, as most patients with FM meet criteria for other chronic overlapping pain conditions or mental...
I suppose if you believe King's previously 'cured' you, and are about to cure you again, you will accept at face value their explanations and...
It would also be interested to get an idea of what in real life people understand by GET, both the clinicians providing it and the patients...
For me a good thing in this article was making the point that for some at least who 'recover', relapses do occur. However ME/CFS does seem to...
We so desperately need good data on the long term course of ME.
And she totally missed that I pointed out a significant overlap in our qualifications and that I may have comparable hands on experience in...
She seemed very much in a willy waving frame of mind in that Facebook thread.
So depressing that the PACE appologists continue to refuse to attempt to answer these questions after so many years, but also that so many of the...
In relation to the study refered to in the Blog post, it is interesting to ask what loneliness is. Loneliness is not simplely lack of human...
I wonder how much we learn to deal with lack of human contact. Currently I am coming out of the worst relapse of my twenty five years of ME. At...
Historically there have been problems for adults with learning difficulties accessing general health care in the UK. I don't know if this has...
As with ME every thing is more complicated than might initially seem. We have no clear idea if the small numbers that appear to have total...
One of the difficulties in dealing with the BPS advocates is pinning down what they actually believe about the nature of ME/CFS. Indeed some seem...
I personally believe both the course of my ME and my life management were adversely impacted by not understanding adequately the possible and...
There is enormous variation in medical interventions offered to people with ME: pain killers, sleeping tablets, vitamin injections, etc, etc, etc....
It asks for an 'ORCID code' too. I could not see any comments so I wondered if you need be 'signed in' some how to comment.
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