Why aren't more psychologists speaking up about the danger of indoctrinating patients to believe they are something which they are not?
Questionnaire self-reported childhood trauma is unreliable. I can't recall the details but I think in one study of depression it was found to not...
Hard to predict but: The forced separation of children with ME from their family, because they decline (further) GET treatment would most likely...
Something like a condensed, practice-oriented IOM report would be very useful. PS: there is a primer for pediatric ME/CFS which I like Note the...
If the wrong questions have been asked, what would be the right questions? One good question is: How can doctors best support patients with...
Thanks Andy. I think it could be useful to leave comments to show that this is an important topic. Maybe it will help attract some attention from...
Thanks for sharing. It is interesting. I used to meditate and thought it would be a way to control the illness but eventually gave up because it...
Another aspect is this: There are patients that are too sick to care for themselves and dependent on family which also abuses them verbally...
I don't think researchers should be allowed to say whatever they want about patients while being protected by academic freedom. It is incredibly...
I see it differently. The assumptions are important because they determine the treatment approach taken. If researchers continue to try and make a...
They are trying to explain why some people have persistent physical symptoms that can't be explained by medicine. There's more but text can't be...
@Jonathan Edwards in your excellent letter you say I think this is not an accurate comment. It is sensible and sufficient to focus on the...
Hi, did you do the lightning process? Can you describe it?
Is it not-worth-reading babble?
I think of the BPS narrative as a form of brutality inflicted on patients. It doesn't involve any obvious violence but it has been extremely...
Can you link to the article?
The Wikipedia page has a list of possible indicators of pseudoscience. It is astonishing how well it describes the characteristics of the BPS...
This reminds me of how bizarre it is to present a "better than a passive control intervention" result as meaningful. It is what you would expect...
@Stuart the debate about case definitions and some other things exists because contrary to popular narratives claiming to explain the facts, it's...
Reduced stress tolerance could also be part of the body's response to illness, as a way of encouraging risk averse behaviour at a time when any...
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