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Dengue fever is also known as Break-bone fever, as it feels like all your bones are broken. Be interesting if it, or any other disease with a similar symptom, have any genetic commonalities with ME/CFS.

Interesting. General musculoskeletal pain, often very serious, has always been a major and almost constant feature for me. It has what feels like a very deep component, like it is underneath the muscle, and the bones themselves are hurting. Would bone marrow experiencing altered pressure...

It's bizarre accusation to make, isn't it. All professions & professionals are 'self-declared'. WTF are the various medical colleges if not self-declared (and self-regulating, very poorly at times)? ---------- This study could provide a template for assessing how other stigmatized conditions...

Hard to get somebody to understand something when their income, reputation, status, ego, etc, depend on them not understanding it. Yes, because the one thing it cannot possibly be is true. So let's make sure that very real possibility is never allowed on the table for serious discussion. And...

John Gerrard, for those unacquainted with his views. (1, 2, 3). :emoji_zipper_mouth:

He is good. :laugh: Check out his take on the word 'ass', and its complications.

Bashing your head against a wall here brings vegetable spring rolls and laksa curry. :ninja:

"thrilled", "excited", etc...

Exactly. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Yep. That is exactly what has happened. Good catch. Any argument that characterises PEM as 'discomfort' is invalid from the start, and for somebody in a very senior position, like Walitt is, it cannot be excused as ignorance or inexperience. It is deliberate obfuscation and misdirection. Once...

If there is any idea whose validity history has completely shredded beyond all debate, it is the just world.

Two overarching findings observed in all FND subtypes include symptom variability and a grimacing expression while following the clinician’s instructions during the physical examination (2). WTF?!? Every time you think these idiots couldn't possible get any worse, there they go and prove you...

I think SequenceME is the one we should be pushing for now.

Burton writing about stigmatisation of these conditions is rich, given his track record of psycho-stigmatisation of these conditions.

We did, the 2002 guidelines. But they are way out of date, and were not done by the NHMRC but by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

The shift away from terminologies such as “psychogenic” or “conversion” disorders underscores advances in how FND is conceptualized marketed.

Moderate-certainty evidence indicates CBT may reduce fatigue and improve cognitive function in long COVID. Those two things don't belong together. I wonder if that was forced on them by the reviewers/editors?

Any discussion of the possibility that the FSD label/concept is invalid, irrelevant, and highly counterproductive?

Several behavioural therapies are efficacious for global symptoms in IBS, although the most evidence exists for those classed as brain–gut behaviour therapies. However, certainty in the evidence for all direct and indirect comparisons across the network were rated as either low or very low...

$13,567 :thumbup: