He (et al) did say that "many sufferers have been told that physical and mental exertion is to be avoided....This may be correct in some cases,...
Language is a funny thing, isn't it? "Chronic disabling fatigue" must be so much worse than mere "chronic fatigue". Oh, I see. They call it...
Presumably, like true scientists, they were asking this question to seek to refute the supposition that a full recovery after CBT for CFS is not...
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I have been thinking about all those who put their names to this report, or allowed their names to be put to it. Some of them are surprising....
Was that part of the test? Preparation for how to behave in ski-lift queues. Only joking.
Now we know to leave all the heavy lifting to Luther
Having read that Discussion Paper by Wessely the answer to the original question is a definitive "yes". I had not before quite understood the...
I especially liked that bit.
.....and with the "apology" to share a little laugh as the patients are probably too stupid to understand.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/20440254_Myalgic_encephalomyelitis_A_warning_discussion_paper
I had often wondered about the degree of consensus. There does not look to have been much. This Wessely paper from 1989 is also worth reading to...
It is interesting to note the date of the meeting-23 March 1990, which is earlier than I had imagined. Given that papers had been in circulation...
Your highlighting of the "not lifelong" is interesting. On its own it could mean a condition not present at birth, but, when an onset is...
The reply appears to be a joke in poor taste by picking on one of the least important aspects of the complaint, the "verbal aggression", which Nye...
The complexity of this makes my head hurt. It used to be known that there was, in some people, an objective feature associated with some episodes...
Thanks for that contribution. I find that the difficulty in understanding group 1 lies in the comments in the initial summary. It says "Seventy...
In 2006 SW gave a lecture on GWS at Gresham College London. This was interrupted by protestors. One of the leaders alleged that her computer had...
Were that to happen, it would merely be evidence that powers have been vested in people who are unfit to exercise them.
Irony of ironies. I hope the allegations following the Gresham College GWS lecture were declared as a COI. Whether the allegations were true or...
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