So, a quarter of children with a severe, chomic illness had depression? And the sicker they were, the more emotional distress they experienced?...
Excellent example of how a supposedly harmless, but ineffective, treatment can indirectly cause harm.
Finding a correlation between PTSD and chronic illness is not surprising. The ACEs study found that childhood trauma raises your risk of many...
*Record scratching sound* That's a dramatic change in tone. Also, it would be hard to prove pacing actually works, due to the same issues that...
A smart and balanced article. The title was ambiguous, but fear not. They're not comparing patient advocates to non-doctors pushing...
I also actively want my body to be used for research, assuming knowledge about ME is still scarce once I die.
Very deep and interesting read. Summary of what I read so far: Microglia aren't either resting or activated as many assume. They're constantly...
Develop the nanoneedle into a commercially available test for ME or prove conclusively it doesn't work. If we succeed, we'd make ME easily...
Overstating their findings and potential undisclosed conflicts of interest? Very disappointing to see when our lives hang in the balance.
True. I experienced PEM for three years before I heard the term "post-exertional malaise."
We seem to have missed the fact that this paper is a milestone: It's the first completed, rigorous trial of a long Covid treatment I know of.
It's very mixed, a little over half of commenters leaning towards biological and the rest towards psychological. Insightful excerpts from the...
I'm sure there's way more pieces to this puzzle than levels of chemicals.
Why research the pathology of a disease when you can just say that music therapy works and declare victory? heh
They found something new in a small study...that a whopping two people with ME have elevated levels of ATG13 and that microglia don't like it....
The main problem was that they tried too hard to represent "both sides." They also called it "chronic fatigue", only mentioned PEM once, and...
Kudos to the authors. They interpreted their answers honestly instead of trying to puff them up. It's not a positive answer...but I will welcome...
This. When scientists on my side publish bad research, I'm going to call them out as vigorously as when Trudy Chalder does it. Using such a...
Also...my mental issues will probably lead me down a road of pretty extreme self-harm (e.g. GET or self-help GET) if I ever "lose faith" in the...
What if it affects how my mental health is managed? I'm sorry, I simply cannot go on without incontrovertible evidence I'm sick. I don't even care...
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