It doesn't help that doctors use depression as a waste basket diagnosis for any unexplained fatigue, pain, or sleep disorders. I was misdiagnosed...
Just found this on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_medicine I fear the harm done by the BPS crowd will last a generation,...
Pain catastrophizing is just a diplomatic way of saying hypochondria, I'm sure Wessely would approve.
Does any one know what criteria they are using and what they class as "extreme symptoms"?
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/blogs/as-a-gp-whos-overcome-coronavirus-heres-what-i-want-you-to-know/20040354.article Does anyone have access...
Re: PHARMAC seminar: Chronic pain, 5: Psychosocial and functional treatments @23:18 Catastrophic thinking, Boom bust activity patterns - sounds...
Tried it back in 2015, complete waste of money. I suspect it's a fad treatment with no proven benefit for ME patients.
May be it seems that way because ME patients have erroneously been placed in to and drowned out by the larger group of Chronic Fatigue. This is...
The aphorism is: "When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras"?
I've always thought that psych explanations of my illness make about as much sense as misaligned chakras or negative chi energy. Only difference...
My limitations don't vary hour to hour or between days, I'm very severe and never have miracle cures or good days. There are plenty of ME patients...
I'm not convinced that the rapid muscle fatigue-ability that Dr. Melvin Ramsay described was the same PEM we describe today, even people's...
Isn't that a problem with other illnesses though? For example: someone could be experience MS but without anything showing up on an MRI scan....
What would you class as valid? What research would you accept as proof of abnormality that can be put to clinical use?
I've heard different definitions of somatisation, it seems to be used as code for either hysteria or hypochondria, or at least inconsequential...
I think all research papers should be free to access for everyone not just a privileged few. That way there will be a better chance at spotting...
After getting ME and seeing the flawed (sometimes fraudulent like PACE) research I lost a lot of respect for scientific journals and the peer...
This comment could fit right in the "Why do people believe in psychosomatic explanations" thread. Sceptics often say "We're not saying your...
I noticed there's no mention of PEM in these early leaflets, did that term get coined later on?
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