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This is true. Which raises the question of the preffered term here. Maybe 'people with ME/CFS need support...' is the way to phrase it.

This is a very good point.

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Neurodivergent adults are overrepresented in every ME and LC space I've been a part of. So it's not just the kids. Might be a coincidence but...

Saying or writing 67 is a meaningless meme that children and teenagers find hilarious at the minute for some reason. Or maybe it's already passe I'm not sure.

But it does - they put effort into convincing you of it. It took my GP six months to dismantle my certainty that my symptoms were not mental health related. Even if gaslighting is not the exact right term, it is a form of manipulation that does unspeakable damage to pwME, even leaving...

Because that doesn't encapsulate the experience of having your doctor use underhanded and manipulative language and techniques in order to trick you into accepting a bogus psychobehavioural/biopsychosocial framework of your illness, one that they don't necessarily believe themselves (doctors...

I think because a) pain is something that is easily understandable to the average person, unlike PEM, and b) many people with fibro who don't suffer from PEM can work, so people are less likely to decide they're lazy. But it is still a target for the psychobehavioural crowd. And many people are...

I understand this hesitance, but I feel that in many cases of medical gaslighting the doctor is either saying whatever will get them out of the office quick enough, or convincing them in a framework like functional or mind body that is not the framework they use in their interactions with...

The next step is SequenceME. Even a fool could see that. If they have no intention of doing that I doubt they have the intelligence to fund good quality smaller projects. The level of dishonesty in these responses [edit: the government's PMQ responses, to be clear] is sickening.

If they havent figured out by now that non-pharmalogical interventions aren't likely to do much, I don't know what to tell them.

I can't speak for anyone else but I am most interested in BTN2A2 and OLFM4, because they seem to relate to aspects of immune signalling.

Perhaps a day where the researchers who have a immume signalling loop theory can present their research/theorising and what their next steps to prove or falsify their hypothesis would be. If we think it's likely a signalling problem perhaps presenting the aformentioned theories plus the...

Anyone know more about this?

I just don't understand how it isn't crystal clear to everyone at this point that exercise doesn't help treat ME or LC. If this wasn't ideological, it would have ceased to be recommended everywhere after the PACE reanalysis. Instead we now have nearly another decade of low quality studies...

Honestly I swear some doctors are going to need actual deprogramming from experts in helping the victims of cults before they admit it's not psychological. We'll all be lining up to get the treatment and they'll be saying that the treatment is a placebo and that their colleagues administering it...

These people wouldn't know a mechinism oriented approach if one jumped up and slapped them in the face!

This is all very Wallitt-esque. Disappointing.

That man has entirely too much influence.

The phrase 'it's always projection' springs to mind...