Do you think that CBT/GET proponents know this treatment doesn't work but pretend to honestly believe that it's effective?
They're in a loop trying to save their latest dishonest statement with more dishonesty and it gets less believable every year. In their response...
Thanks. Do you know if Soares-Weiser believes the scare stories about patient activists?
This sounds like something that would broadly reflect disease severity, wealth, living circumstances etc. Comparison with a control group adequate...
It would have been better if this test worked, but it's also good to know it's not reliable.
Maybe they are realizing that it's not a great idea to ask chronically ill people to try and remember how they felt before the illness which may...
I disagree with this sentence. We have no idea if relationship satisfaction or depression are impacting CFS-related fatigue. The impact could be...
I suspect that many of these testimonials about patients making a miraculous recovery with some commercial program are made up. It is trivial to...
They could argue that the physical functioning scores reflect perception of physical functioning and that this perception causes poor health and...
@Chris Ponting this will interest you.
The NIH has a page on this: In addition to having higher blood tryptase levels, individuals with more alpha tryptase copies also report more...
This study is actually advertising.
It is difficult to definitely prove that the treatment caused this deterioration but this adverse event must be recorded. I think they will try to...
@Jonathan Edwards can you use this story for the NICE hearing? I think the psychological abuse / brainwashing aspect hasn't been considered much....
When you feel that this is about to happen, you could drink plenty of salt water and lie down, with feet elevated above the level of your head....
In case you have not been tested for POTS, it would be a good idea to do so.
When a biomarker is discovered, what will happen is not that psychiatrists will continue to treat CFS patients with CBT/GET as White appears to...
White should be ashamed for ever promoting the false illness beliefs and deconditioning theory. He has no credibility as far as any attempts to...
I am convinced that the gut is relevant to my illness. I think it influences the illness trajectory and severity and that there is some problem...
What a poor girl. It must have been a nightmare. I'm not surprised she broke down in the end. There is only so much daily torture in the form of...
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