Is there anthing more daft than creating a 'diagnostic algorithm' that is designed to include people with a wide range of symptoms and diagnoses,...
I looked up the original paper on the study. It's interesting that only a few months (March to October 2005) after they published their analysis...
I could have done easily when my ME/CFS was mild and I was still working and crashing quite often. When crashed my SF-36 physical function would...
I tried reading the whole article but had to stop as it was so distressingly judgemental and so unrelated to my own experience I found it...
There is a world of difference between a precipitating factor and a perpetuating factor. I know of no evidence that stress of any kind...
If I read this correctly, it seems that they found that what one believes about the cause of illness has no effect on the subjective outcomes of a...
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I don't know what you imagine most people with ME/CFS's lives are like. Many, if not most of us, have no option but to push our limits. We know...
It is actually very difficult to avoid ALL exercise. Turning over in bed is exertion, thinking is cognitive exertion, if someone is starting to...
How do you know that fear of exercise can prevent natural recovery? Fear of exercise might prevent someone doing fitness exercises and getting...
This disregards the prescribing doctor's professional ethics and insurance. A responsible doctor is surely unlikely to risk their career and...
Thank you @jnmaciuch for explaining so well the risks to pwME of therapies of this sort, and the messianic zeal of their converts. And thank you...
I think you are wrong. Objections to PACE and to a Norwegian study of LP have been objected to before starting on grounds of bad trial design,...
Then why aren't all the stressed people in the world, which is probably practically everybody at some stage in their lives, suffering from ME/CFS?...
Sure they can, in some specific instances, but that says nothing about whether ME/CFS symptoms can be brought about by beliefs, nor that changing...
Surely fear is an emotion that is experienced as fear that the person is consciously aware of. If someone has a fear that stops them doing an...
You were claiming a lot more than pain having an emotional component. To me 'emotional attachment' implies someone preferring to be in pain, or...
I'm sorry I don't have the capacity to search through all your comments to find an unnamed review and search it to find evidence that pwME have an...
I wonder how often that really happens. I would say without exception all the people I've come across with ME/CFS either in person or online, and...
About a student who is bedbound with ME/CFS, POTS and gastroparesis. This is from his fundraising page, asking for £10,000: It gives no...
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