I think it might have even more stigma in men because it is seen as a disease of "neurotic women". The BPS theory of an infection that goes but we...
Inara, the Royal Free outbreak came just as polio was being tamed. It is hard for us to appreciate the terror of polio. I have memories of...
Also ME is a life destroying chronic condition where the endpoint is being completely bedridden, unable to communicate, be touched, endure light...
The 70's/80's were also the time when convalescence was being dropped and doctor's were being encouraged to get people back to work as quickly as...
Posting this separately. My husband was at a medical computing conference last week and one of the speakers was very interesting. His company had...
The theory goes that when they test muscle strength, people who are faking have a normal grip that suddenly drops because the conscious faking...
No, he wouldn't tell me what the trial was about, It is just what I think now when I look back.
I was originally diagnosed as having migraine "with more of the funny symptoms and less of the headache" In about 1982 I was part of a clinical...
Before CFS, there was a general acknowledgement that ME often happened to people who were not able to rest when they were ill. This was in the...
I have been thinking about this thread (and others).We have been looking at so many of these speeches, letters etc, recently and one thing jumps...
It all shocked me then and the bewildered feeling has never gone away. He was like a conquistador who came to a new land, renamed it, described it...
I was diagnosed by a hospital consultant in 1984. Many people were diagnosed by doctors. 38 out of 15,000 is unbelievable. Where did he get 15,000...
What he was saying was more offensive in 1994 than may be appreciated now. ME had come out of the doldrums in the 1980s with people like Eleanor...
I made the remark about vets because animals, plants and bacteria become ill because of biomedical reasons. If all human doctors are being...
"I think what can also be clearly seen in this example is how similar the contents of different authors are. This is not science. I always wonder...
" It is still not well enough known that for enduring and disabling bodily symptoms a purely biomedical explanation of the extent of the symptoms...
No problem, it was a valid point. I was trying to say that a lot of the evidence they use involves questionnaires for depression that include...
This would be correct, there is no reason why one type of illness would prevent you getting another, but there is no evidence it happens. The most...
Sickness behaviour could be seen as conserving energy to use to fight infection. If you don't feel like eating you don't have to go and hunt....
The people I know with MS feel their illness becomes worse during periods of stress, physical and emotional. Dr McIntyre was a staunch defender...
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