It annoys me when people use the word "understands" instead of "believes", I feel it is letting people off the hook for not believing a serious...
I have a feeling this is this another scam to get patients changing their questionnaire taking behaviour, I could be wrong though. Is anyone...
Not trying to discourage you (It was a good video overall) but where does the 88 deaths figure come from (@4:10 in the video)? This MEPedia...
I hope you're right. I thought that public perception of Long Covid was that it's more "physical" than ME.
I think it would be misleading not to include the figure of active members.
Agreed. There's only about 50 to 75 active members who post regularly.
I've had my ME misdiagnosed as somatization and delusions. As a result I've been treated terribly by family and my carers, I've been accused of...
I feel the same way about the term ME. When you say "ME", patients think serious physical disease characterized by an adverse reaction to exertion...
1) It should have mentioned battery power levels permanently lowering after exertion. The effects of ME for some patients like me are permanent...
When I read the title of the thread I thought "I wonder what country that's in". I was shocked to read it was in the UK.
Software problems are seen as inconsequential illness (exercise can't harm you). People will believe you can just be talked out of any worsening...
I've looked at the article already but couldn't make sense of it. Can you give examples of effect sizes and how they were derived, assuming I know...
What's an effect size?
Hopefully genetic engineering will be able to prevent most diseases in the future. I think it's use is inevitable.
The 250,000 figure is based on the flawed CDC 1994 criteria. I would estimate that only about 5000 to 10,000 people in the UK have real (exercise...
Ben Goldacre for example.
Several posts moved from this thread The 250,000 figure is way over inflated. See:...
@Dx Revision Watch - Where is SEID (Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease)?
Insomnia is not a psychological problem. How do they know this? Somatization is a harmful quack diagnosis with no test, it's used by doctors as a...
That's a very eloquent post, mind if I borrow it? I vote for this, some one please set up a poll.
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