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There are still zero approved cures for it Or treatments. Saying 'cures' is giving the BPS club the chance to say they are only offering treatments, to help manage it.

Recent literature suggests an association And always will.

At what point does this become straight fraud? Not to mention cruelty. Exactly. It simply does not work without invoking some version of deconditioning, physical or psychological.

Massive own goal, and so avoidable. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Patients have to accept that at this point there just isn't any robust explanatory or treatment model, and barely anything useful for the most basic management, and no quick or easy way to get to them. That is not...

Why is there so little basic honesty in the first place? The whole quality control process is failing at every level in psychosomatics, from initial writing, through reviewers, to the final approval by the editors.

I thought a shallow breathing pattern was part of hyperventilation, and that the opposite was found in ME/CFS patients (oxygen hunger deep breathing)?

This.

People who complied with the intervention appeared to derive benefit. 'complied' Bastards don't want to get better.

Third of three done. :thumbup:

Nonetheless it is important to get this stuff on the formal record. Every little bit acts as another click of the ratchet to further constrain the excuse that nobody tried to point it out. Yep. The rot is very deep and wide.

Persistent fatigue (PF) is a highly prevalent transdiagnostic symptom. Which does not mean it has the same causal processes nor management/treatment, if any. PF is an under-researched field, with scarce knowledge of disease mechanisms as well as treatment and preventive measures. So WTF have...

You make some fair points in your comment, but this one is not a big issue anymore as evolving mask design has largely got around that, for general purpose N95/P2 standard at least. I use a brand of N95/P2 standard called Halyard Fluidshield 3 that are very comfortable and can be worn all day...

That is exactly what it is. Patients having to manage emotionally stunted clinicians, simply to survive the clinical encounter with these snowflakes. Yep. Worth repeating in full. I think he is projection personified, par excellence one might even say. Everything he attributes to patients is...

That is certainly how it gets used in practice. When in reality it is the inverse: failed theories and the theoreticians proposing them need something and somebody else to blame for the failure and human carnage left in its wake, and usually it is the victim who becomes the party 'responsible'...

Be careful what you wish for, dear patients.

The term is so loaded with arbitrary causal attribution that it has become a major source of bias in and of itself. Unfortunately this is not an isolated example in psych. If anything the entire field is heavily contaminated by this problem. It is genuinely astounding that the one...

Individual face-to-face CBT was found to have a large effect size in reducing fatigue (Cohen's d = 2.91, 95% CI 0.51 to 5.31, p=0.02). Self-directed CBT was found to have a large effect size in improving physical functioning (Cohen's d = -2.76, 95% CI -5.06 to -0.47, p=0.04). Subjectively...

Excellent. Thanks. :thumbup:

These four. I can take an informed guess at it, but would like to be certain. Thanks. :)

Yet another reason to mask up and stay vaxxed.