1) Journos do not generally have much science background. They write well and opine profusely. Health articles need more than that, or to be frank...
Didn't know that. Thanks.
Hello Esther The headline is imo problematic and dualist. If systemic illness causes mainly psycho-behavioural problems , then the illness can...
Does he not realise anyway that taking a word which has routinely been used as an overarching term to include pathologies and symptoms and newly...
Hope it was tuneful!
Q. Are MS et al not taking advantage of an opportunity occasioned for them by the history of the English language to create categories on the...
Hi Peter What does "the sickest" in this context mean anyway? Most symptomatic would be better, but what of? A question which in the world of...
I agree, but the problem is knowing who "we" are. There is a lot of skewed thinking around. "CFS is made up by Wessely et al" "We've got a new...
Interesting that the Norwegian BPS guy sees extreme "ME" as being the same as mild, whereas SW has been raising the question as to whether these...
Yes I agree with a good deal of this. 1) and 2) I just stick at "if you have symptoms you have ME" (short of an alternative diagnosis), if you...
They might have been on the way to recovery anyway..... That said, personally I do pay attention to anecdote as its the best we have and the...
Agreed. Sadly BPS is perfectly capable of making up a theory to "account" for this...... I am also worried about simplistic approaches to...
I had to look the term OP up! Sorry for ignorance. I suppose all chronic, fluctuating conditions present this problem. Another complicating factor...
My experience is that increased walking over years did not lead to a maintained improvement, and in that sense the "improvement" I showed over...
Good point and one of the problems is that people do not see us when we are in rest-recovery or relapse.
Fair enough, I just hope they care.
I hope you won't be banging your head against a brick wall of people who have decided ME is subjective and that talk of objectivity is irrelevant,...
Not infrequently those who have benefited from LP suggest that those who have not benefited or do not undertake LP are negative, defeatist etc....
Their whole approach is based on non objectivity. Get a liaison with the patients by talking up the "reality" of the "illness" or of "real...
Broken toe - disorder but not disease - needs organic, physical attention. Deconditioning - ditto. But a broken toe is not deconditioning and...
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