I recall feeling embarrassed, as a youth, when I realised that I had completely misunderstood Hegel's comment to the effect that the only thing we...
Nice one, that. For a while I thought you were being serious until I remembered post#56.
That seems logical. If the patient is complying with the doctors treatment regime he is not suffering from Abnormal Illness Behaviour and must...
I think he said that it occurred during an outbreak of polio, which is, I think, correct. I don't think he claimed that the Royal Free cases were...
I am definitely on the side of those who seem protected from other infections. Sometimes when there is a bug going round the household I start to...
I would not have thought that those in Leeds at that time had much truck with the idea of illness beliefs. I once spoke, socially, to a consultant...
@Inara I am glad you find it interesting. There is something here that needs explaining. The difficulty is that all we have to go on are the...
We have had this discussion in the past and the similarity to the supposed "fever effect" in autism was noted. Clearly there is something going on.
Wessely believes that “There lies at the heart of CFS, not a virus or immune disorder, but a distortion of the doctor-patient relationship”...
I see that Ian Sample has a PhD in biomedical materials from Queen Mary's London. I'm trying to remember why the name of that institution rings a...
I am hoping that Part 7 will say that we fearlessly approached the Reuters journalist Kelland for a comment but she indicated that she could not...
Hmmm…..have they been shown to not cause fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome?
It might be thought that there is emerging a pattern of behaviour providing circumstantial evidence as to the likely source of the journalistic...
At least as it is from the Grauniad one can feel reasonably certain that this would have been produced by the Science Weakly team.
I wouldn't diagnose ME until 3 years. I think there needs to be an intermediate diagnosis of something like "proto ME" before that, as it could go...
I suspect that a part of the reason for the withdrawal from AIB was the onus which it places upon the doctor to provide the correct diagnosis....
I think you must have got your posts muddled. Did that belong with the one quoting the therapist?
@Jonathan Edwards I accept your point but would again think there are points to distinguish. In your example there was no prior experience to...
My argument is different to that of Gibson. CBT and GET depend upon a model for which there is no reasonable ground for belief. The onus is upon...
I have just posted elsewhere that the core paper seems not to be the 1989 one but Cognitive Behavioural Management of Post-viral fatigue Syndrome...
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