Yeah, funny that. Then add the decades of abuse of those patients by their self-claimed saviours, and the very serious economic consequences of...
Same here.
Demons –> Witches –> Vapours –> Hysteria –> Neurasthenia –> ME –> CFS –> BPS –> MUS –> CSS –> ? Progress? Somebody is profiting from this shitty...
Jeebus, that is one hell of a rabbit hole they are bolting down. They just can't face the possibility that they might be completely and utterly...
Some of the most important achievements of the human race were delivered by people who are, um, socially and ethically challenged. Isaac Newton,...
Shows you just how little respect they have for ME patients.
Yeah, coz leaving it up to the pros like Prof Pinching has delivered so much progress for us. :grumpy:
I have long thought a significant part of our problem is that medicine favours people with stamina, especially early in the career. So it is hard...
I like the way your mind works. :D --------------------- Just want to highlight this work by Tom and Bob. It is very important.
An inevitable outcome of the MUS paradigm cult. Happened before countless times in various guises (hysteria, neurasthenia, etc), going to happen...
Brick by brick is how you build a solid house. Also, it is not always obvious in advance which little victory will yield the most effect and gain...
This quote contains at least three of their standard sophistry tactics. 1) Inflating the role of an alleged factor: e.g. significant becomes...
Implying psychiatry is not science? :whistle:
Oops. I mean the NHS. :oops: Ta.
Excellent analogy. Indeed, but don't expect any satisfactory one from Wessely & co. I think the answer is that this is the only vaguely...
Indeed. I will be gobsmacked if he doesn't make at least some generic comments about stigma and hostility to mental health, how difficult a job it...
A fan of Fry, particularly his narration. But I fear he will prove a lost cause on this stuff. Like most with genuine mental health issues, he...
Especially by those postulating psycho-cultural illness as the explanation du jour for all and any unexplained symptoms.
That is true. But I don't think it is unreasonable to use heart rates in particular as a proxy measure in the meantime. Easy to monitor in real...
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