We have been using Tesco deliveries for most of the lockdown and since, and have just changed over to their Delivery Saver for £8 a month, which...
i.e. Them saying it would be unethical and/or impractical to do it scientifically, therefore they consider it legitimate and 'scientific' to do it...
However it is approached, the two things should not be conflated by anyone: Physiological inflammation in the brain, versus Hotchpotch notions...
The huge problem with subjective sensations such as fatigue, is that without biomarker backup, it is incredibly difficult to differentiate between...
Actually I don't agree with that, because lethargy has strong psychological implications, implying lack of motivation, lack of interest.
I had to look Dunning-Kruger up, but yes, absolutely yes.
Yes, I was just distinguishing between the sensation of fatigue, versus the thing that provokes it - no useful energy available. The same as the...
I find the whole notion of unhelpful thinking bitterly ironic, because the whole BPS approach to ME/CFS seems born out of their own unhelpful...
I wouldn't see it that way. I see fatigue as a perception, a subjective warning indication. There will be all sorts of potential triggers that can...
Some of both I think. I mean the PACE trial wasn't so-named out of pure coincidence; it was I'm sure a deliberate ploy to help conflate the...
The NHS It's from here:...
History will judge these people, hopefully within their lifetimes.
Hopefully more borne of desperation then.
Yes, I do agree, because for some their limits may be closing in, and may continue to do so after any supposed baseline has been identified, no...
No, I just meant that when starting out on any project I often begin with an open slate and only some way along the road do things start to gel....
I think it is also too easy to get hung up on word usage. When someone with ME/CFS speaks of being shattered, utterly exhausted, extreme fatigue,...
Not sure I'd progressed as far as identifying that to be what I was saying ;).
My wife often uses the work "tired" which I know many people here detest. But you have to hear the emphasis my wife puts on the word within a...
Excellent proposition I think, but reckon at such an early stage should not be presumed to be a single scale. Instrument rather than scale,...
I agree with you @Invisible Woman. Thinking about my wife, she has improved to some degree over the years, albeit long way from recovered. But...
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