The responses have triggered some more research and relooking at the sources. Helpfully Sharpe cited as authority for his "dysfunctional...
"Regulatory capture" often arises from relative apathy on the part of one side to the argument. That could not be the excuse here.
Whenever "functional illness" and ME are mentioned in the same sentence I like to quote Rachel Jenkins: HYSYERIA RECONSIDERED As we have seen,...
@TiredSam Just to piss you off even more, you should know that my doctors were persuaded of this by at latest 1985. Even if Wessely et al were...
Thanks for clarifying that little misunderstanding.
I'll shut up then. One cannot put a benign interpretation on that.
These other uses of the term are very instructive. Here is another paywalled paper by Pilowski which allows one to see enough to get a flavour...
You will, from time to time, have seen references to "abnormal illness behaviour" in connection with ME or CFS, and these will no doubt have cited...
Perhaps a session of yoga would help. It cures everything, you know.
It all feels rather Afmeish to me. It isn't wholly fair to blame the speaker. More a question for the organiser and her supervisor.
Perhaps she has him down as having MUS, or even ME.
Who selects the selectors?
Be fair. The Bristol Stool Charts which she mentions could be useful in categorising the effluent from that region.
I think that I was considering the likely effect rather than the intent. This seems like preparation to refight the last war. What exactly is the...
The minutes have only just been posted on the FORward ME website.
If Forward ME is going to respond to the NICE guidelines does this mean that its constituent members will not be doing so. What would be the point...
Where did you go to university where you could pick up polar bear liver as tit-bits? Svalbard? More seriously, the evidence provided by those...
Words are very difficult. "Depression" seems to be even more difficult than "fatigue". I doubt if even the most ardent BPSer would consider...
The Newsletter is dated December 2008. The prime Minister would have been Gordon Brown. ETA the date of the notice is not stated.
Why would the placebo trigger the release of endorphins, when the original medication, also expected to have a beneficial effect, apparently does not?
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