I’ve noticed some (especially US based) charities have fundraising times when they say your donations will be matched (2x, 3x etc.) such as the...
I didn’t venture far into that thread but Chadler being an author made me very skeptical.
I realised there wasn’t a specific thread for the link between BPS/psychosomatics and sexism. So I’ve created one. The thing that prompted me to...
I think they are a major problem, but they aren’t worse than BPS, for the simple reason BPS theories have led to countless human rights abuses,...
Rephrased without psychsomatic assumptions: Functional disability preventing normal social activities, post-exertional malaise, and self-reported...
Kudos to the authors for not saying ME/CFS = Fatigue. They used CCC, with the DePaul questionnaire as criteria. Interesting study.
I got a reply from someone working on the study. The depression questionnaire is the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) Which is has already...
A while ago, @forestglip found a reddit thread related to Lupus, where one of the most liked answers contained a description from a Lupus patient...
I thought It would be interesting to have a place to collect descriptions or accounts of living with other illnesses that include phenomena...
Interesting how high PEM is, and how low loss of sense of smell is. It really shows how perceptions of long COVID are not formed by patients...
Depending on what happens might test my preference for Celtic football club ahha. In all seriousness, congratulations!
Wonder if this holds using deconditioned/unhealthy/sick controls.
I used visible (which is where the data for this study comes from) for about 4 months and I think there’s two problems with a study like this: 1)...
Since CBT is “effective” for fatigue in cancer, I guess cancer is “not real but psychological”. The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for...
So basically if I get this right? They did a playacting test, and rated people by how stressed they think they got in the test. Then, they saw...
The way I see it medicine is not a science. It’s a heirarchical culture formed around interpretions on how to apply a science “huaman biology”. In...
Can’t say I’ve tried it (although the lamp above my bed emits red light because I find it less tiring than white light), but I imagine many of the...
Out of my personal experience with doctors, not including those I specifically chose because of knowledge of ME. Sample is about half split...
I can’t believe they can do an entire review of the literature while holding onto the asssumption Long COVID is a single condition and not a bunch...
I won’t make any comments on the various theories, but another way to interpret this, would be that not everyone with ME has orthostatic...
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