There is a feeling of inevitability about this. It was not necessarily this patient who would be reporting in such terms, but, sooner or later...
It is rather late to be adding to the Robert Howard view of the autism trial but I missed this yesterday. What I found astonishing was the BBC...
One wishes to be careful in what one writes, but Jo Daniel's views on health anxiety may be coloured by her own experience. There were recent...
The side link to "Five ways to stop feeling tired all the time" may have been a clue. A tatty article.
For any who do not know it, this paper by Kendell from 1991 might be of interest . It discusses the origins of the term "functional". Kendell was...
I think an interesting question would be whether the different aetiologies lead to distinguishable, albeit, similar, conditions. Or does everyone...
It should not be forgotten that the cause of epidemics was "mass hysteria". .. Allegedly.
I thought it was probably a typo for Manana. As in pay for the therapy now and we guarantee that you'll get better... Sometime... Perhaps.
Whatever the unidentified virus is, or viruses are, capable of causing atypical glandular fever. Atypical in the sense that it is not caused by...
Coxsackie B?
For years, CBT has been used successfully to treat health issues like chronic pain (4) heart disease (5) and multiple sclerosis (6). Parallel...
Glad to see that the word prestigious (as applied in a post above) seems to have reverted its original meaning of "practising conjuring tricks".
Therapist; heal thyself.
Did those MP's attend the Parliamentary Group meeting?
Complete the diary, but don't under any circumstances concentrate on the illness, symptoms or limitions imposed thereby. That would , of course,...
That is interesting. Presumably at the time this would have been Erythema migrans. One wonders what the acknowledged incidence of it, and of...
Perhaps we need to start counting the number of different usages of the term "perceptions", and then analysing them. Is a "perceived consequence"...
Never fear. KCL is putting together a team to advise on and treat the most important part of this. The "functional overlay" presenting as...
Thanks. I see that and quite understand that there may be circumstances where symptoms experienced might be reasonably described in such terms....
In this context is "dissociative" disorder being used euphemistically as a synonym for conversion disorder, or is there a substantive difference...
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