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Sadly all true. Highly refined production line GIGO barely begins to cover it.

Transferring responsibility onto the patient for the profession's failure. Which pretty much sums up the entire psycho-behavioural project thus far, with no sign of it becoming anything else anytime soon.

Yep. That they can get away with such a brazen admission just proves how corrupted the quality control system is in this area of medicine has become. How is this not straight scientific and moral fraud? Where's the fucking outrage from the rest of medicine and society? :mad::mad::mad:

If this finding holds up then it would seem to provide good evidence that LC is biologically based.

Do we know this, and how?

They may have done so but had it changed by reviewers/editors.

In patients with functional motor disorder, no association was found between prepulse inhibition size and objectively rated motor symptom severity. lack of correlation = lack of causation = hypothesis falsified

Current questionnaires don’t capture its severity or impact. Nor its character/nature.

That is exactly how this is going to happen. This crap will be abused to the max against us. 'Don't you want to get better? If you are not even prepared to try then sorry but no support for you, lazy peasant scum.' That kind of cruel blackmail shit. This.

I think it is very clear now (and frankly was from fairly early on) that a very large chunk of LC patients, maybe the majority, have ME/CFS. Not something resembling or related it, but actually it. I see no fundamental difference yet in the evidence. To the contrary. I do see the medical...

On their misperceptions of their intentions. Talk about a buggy software. Therapists, heal thyselves!

Yeah, because the psychosomatic club just hasn't had a fair go at the funding and power, at trying to explain and fix it. Yeah, that's the explanation. His statement would have fitted right into the arguments they were making back then. Just read Wessley's stuff from that time. Nothing has...

Exactly. The blame does not lie entirely with the authors. The whole system is rotten. Which is why it is proving so difficult to get it to change. They are all up to their eyeballs in the swamp they have created, with honourable exceptions. They get rewarded for it. Spot on. I think the...

Power, glory, income, sense of purpose, saviour complex, etc. You know, the usual bag of motivations. I don't think it is any great mystery. The much more important and disturbing question is how have they been able to so easily get away with what is in fact a fairly straightforward case of...

Well said. It is so short, obvious, and unremarkable a list, isn't it. The contrast couldn't be starker.

Iatrogenesis Oh the irony.

Patients had wised up to traditional psychobabble, so they needed some new marketing terms, and went for 'neuro' based stuff.

Good point. Mostly early on, but I have had a few times when I improved hugely more or less overnight (though nowhere near full recovery), for no obvious reason. It never lasted, but the point is that I was functioning at a much higher level. This is one of the main reasons why I have no...

And blaming the patient when it doesn't work, and worse. Wildly misused, just like pacing. Exactly. It is just a highly intrusive invasive power grab over our lives, with zero justification, and highly adverse consequences for us. Whatever legitimate practical advice could be currently offered...

A long COVID diagnosis at timepoint 1 was classified by biopsychosocial variables including stress, social support, and sex (women more likely).... These findings highlight the complex biopsychosocial factors that predict having long COVID with brain fog, and the need for interventions to...