BIAS AGAINST MENTAL ILLNESS AND PSYCHIATRY The self-diagnosis (and perhaps medical diagnosis) of "ME" or "postviral fatigue" appears more...
TREATMENT Part II The main goal of cognitive behavior therapy was to help patients improve activity levels and quality of life, rather than...
TREATMENT Part I Cognitive therapy helps the [CFS] patient understand how genuine symptoms arise from the frequent combination of physical...
CAUSE AND PERPETUATION Part II . . . there is no specific underlying disease process. Reid S, Wessely S. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Conn’s Current...
CAUSE AND PERPETUATION Part I ...[CFS] symptoms are perpetuated by a cycle of inactivity, deterioration in exercise tolerance and further...
PROGNOSIS AND OUTCOME Outcome depended more on the strength of the initial attribution of symptoms to exclusively physical causes. . . . Butler...
Background Information This is the first in what will hopefully become a series of threads with quotations from various doctors, researchers, and...
Didn't they complain to Coyne's university (Groningen) as well? Seems to be quite a habit they've got going, if so ... trying to interfere with...
I suspect that nutraceutical formulations are just seen as the easy way to make some money, along with a nice patent. A lot of researchers seem...
The goal is to increase activity, so it's GET. It just responds to symptoms instead of instructing patients to push past it. It certainly is not...
Did you get that in writing? :D
There are probably more accurate terms than "fatigue" for that symptom and most others.
Pretty sure I've seen fatigue specifically mentioned somewhere as being an extremely common symptom in very many illnesses. Wikipedia says...
No more than in most diseases, I'd say. It's certainly not a central or important symptom. At most it's a starting point in the diagnostic...
Yeah, it only makes sense if accepting the premise that patients are causing their symptoms ("fatigue") with inappropriate behavior.
Yes, pretty much every "central" or brain-based hypothesis completely fails to account for most ME symptoms. They only make it look plausible by...
Well, it's supposed to be about expert definitions and opinions of problems. If they don't know what the symptoms of ME are or think it's a...
Full text is at https://sci-hub.bz/https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317742195 It takes a nice swing at PACE's assessment of recovery: Some of the...
Seems like a pretty reasonable critique. Though this bit suggests he's not particularly familiar with what ME/CFS is or isn't: But I don't...
The activity on forums like this one suggests that most patients who are posting much are more toward the housebound end of the spectrum than the...
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