These people really are at the minimum of the Uncanny Valley function.
Regarding ME/CFS this sort of thing is clearly low on the list of things patients will care about. Everybody wants effective treatment, foremost....
I have just listened to a podcast with Amesh Adalja (bio) of the Johns Hopkins Center For Health Security, who mentioned that some drugs are...
Absolutely. The term that comes to mind that always irritates me is 'Psychological Component'. As in 'Do you deny that CFS/ME could have a...
Psychological can quite fairly mean as little as 'relating to the mind' or 'affecting the mind'. Alzheimer's entails much more than "some...
'Psychological' is not really the important word here. It is 'Psychogenic', or maybe more accurately 'Psycho-perpetuated'. 'Psychological' is...
BPS types may well claim that his fatigue must have been due to a nocebo expectation response to the previous medication! Switching to a new...
I'll add that it's grossly unethical even without harm in terms of protracted reduction in functioning. Pushing to increase activity is always...
The adverb 'merely' seems rather an accurate reflection of how the medical system treats patients, on the whole. (Of course we know from certain...
Plus people will go to work just about up until they collapse for fear of being fired.
This reads like a humanities piece written by someone who identifies unironically as a 'post-modern radical neo-Marxist feminist critical cultural...
I actually had a period of distressing bladder sensations at about age 12. When I finally went in to see a doctor she asked how much caffeine I...
So this guy is a 'neuropsychiatrist' for how many decades, and the best evidence he can give us is 'I feel like in my experience...' Pure...
It may be worse than that in this case. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases are not MUS by any definition. So now they are projecting catastrophization or...
Comrades, what if I told you that filthy bourgeois media will reliably report your propaganda for you, because they are too lazy to change it and...
To me these sorts of cases illustrate that the 50% functioning cutoff for diagnosing ME/CFS is ultimately arbitrary (of course there should be...
People also feel this way about every supplement available based on Amazon reviews. This is just a marketing line.
I wonder what he thinks about the lightning process...
I agree with the point being made that a designation of CBT by itself gives little information as to the actual nature of the intervention....
bleh
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