Snap!
Yes. That is true. However, for some reason many of us find ourselves being pushed to give descriptions of what it's like. Almost as though we...
The more I mull this over the more I agree with @Ravn. Why should we be obliged to describe, in detail, exactly how having ME feels? Are we, in...
I think there is an inherent issue with trying to describe how something so abnormal feels using descriptors a healthy person might feel/use....
Probably easier to say what it doesn't feel like. As a child I remember being really ill and one morning, feeling a little better, hopped out of...
More like it's the wrong type of fuel in the tank maybe?
I do wonder if psychologists are planting the seeds of their own destruction. Everything they look is twisted to give the conclusion- more...
It seems to me "depression", like "fatiigue" is so widely used (and abused) that it generally causes more misunderstanding than not. I understand...
Already done and shared with the person who runs the nearest local group.
Not all my spoons seem to be the same size or made of the same materials & so break or melt more easily than others. Maybe I got a defective batch?
And yet they say- Either someone doesn't know what they're talking about or there's some cognitive dissonance going on here - and I'm not...
It says Clear conflation of anxiety and ME. Some very unhelpful, false illness beliefs right there. Subjective questionnaires. Really, what...
I adore dark choc, but it's effects are nothing like having a cigarette for me.
I had this with a relative who also had a serious head injury. They were like a badly tuned radio - bits of what they said and did made sense. I...
I know when I gave up the fags (& it was one of the hardest things I have ever done) kicking the nicotine habit was just one aspect. The other...
I see it as them trying to sit on both sides of the fence - On one side they want CBT to be given the gravitas of rigorously trialled medical...
I tried various SSRIs and also amitriptyline over the years. The aim was to reduce pain and improve sleep and the prescribed dose was very low....
It means money that could be spent on frontline NHS services will instead go to some private contractor, boosting the profits of their...
Don't any of the GPs or other doctors worry about their jobs being dumbed down? If you're a GP and care about the quality of the health service,...
The problem is that once a patient has been passed off to some Lifestyle, Link Worker "professional" the chances are they won't have the skills to...
Separate names with a comma.
