This is very ironic considering that he and the others do not use the ones available but just look at fatigue.
The science on CBT and GET is not uncertain; it shows that the hypothesis they are based on is completely wrong and that the treatments don't...
In the 80s it was recommended that all studies be done on patients who were standing or at least fatigued. I remember one where they did a QEEG...
I have been thinking about hope and ME in my own life as I look back. When I finally realised that I was not going to get better anytime soon I...
If your questionnaire asks "Do you have trouble finding the right word?" and "Do you forget things?" it is inevitable that the controls will seem...
I had something similar but was told it was just an age thing - I was 39!
This looks like a way to try to put BPS theory onto a scientific footing while still ignoring the actual symptoms of the disease. It does not...
This is a very strange statement considering CBT has been used as a treatment from the start. Also the study of outcomes of patients with...
If they asked people with ME they would discover that many of us have almost constant pain but it is not chronic pain but a deep burning ache that...
There is also the fact that sick children are well aware of the upset they are causing in the family. When their parents are desperate to try...
I read this and found myself wondering if it was an improvement over previous times when a child feeling fatigue after cancer was called ME...
I have said this before but I will say it in capital letters in case someone form the BPS is monitoring this forum. !!I DID NOT GET FATIGUE AT...
I often describe my problems as a lack of stamina but it is really a sudden onset of muscle fatiguability. It feel like something suddenly runs...
I don't know what your experience was but I found some strange effects which did not fit with ME's usual path until I read about the way that...
Symptoms of brain and nerve disease have an overlap if you use only those symptoms it will not tell you anything. A stroke, diabetes, MS can all...
There has been literature readily available about ME and enteroviruses since the 1950s including the correlation to Coxsackie B and others. Not to...
Actually, Mythbusters was all about measurement and put the likes of the PACE trial to shame! BPS research is more at the Sesame Street level :(...
In the days before the internet it was possible to get information from the ME association which had articles by Dr Ramsay and others like him. Dr...
Never heard of there being one in the days before the internet when the ME Association helped fund and set up local groups. Almost all the...
I could believe that because there was a long lag before he came up with it. His thing was ME as neurasthenia, then depression. When is was...
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