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These sorts of articles don’t help our case. Anyone looking at the evidence objectively would conclude that it just isn’t there.

People have been writing and rewriting a variation of this paper in the depression literature since the late 1980s. This approach has yielded zero results in terms of therapeutics.

A psych told me health problems including somatisation and heart disease are caused by Type D personality. It’s almost as if they’re making it up as they go along.

Multidimensional perfectionism. Where do they come up with this shit?

This is the central problem with all research on psychotherapies.

That one got lost in QMUL databases and conveniently cannot be retrieved. :rolleyes:

I doubt very many in the general population hit the WHO recommended 10k steps. This is a highly tendentious abstract implying that Fukuda CFS pts are sick because of a sedentary lifestyle and overweight. At this point we must assume that Newton has gone full BPS.

How hard they fought to prevent the release of fully anonymised scores on various PACE questionnaires, making outlandish claims about the potential for being identified from your SF-36 score (lol) but this massive invasion of privacy and privatisation of healthcare data? No problemo.

I have had similar experiences. The only thing that lifts my mood is actually doing something practical to solve a problem, and if it's a problem that can't be solved, then focus on doing something else to distract myself. Talking endlessly about problems just makes me worse. There has actually...

Somebody doing my grocery shopping or cleaning once a month would do more for my wellbeing than ten thousand hours of counselling.

Tbh the fact that he is reduced to fighting a rearguard action so blatant and pathetic is a sign that we’re making progress. They’ve fallen back very far from their original position in the 1990s (there is no disease, CBT/GET is curative) to now saying that CBT is somewhat helpful as an adjunct...

Every time they get a diagnosis monstrously wrong they say this. "Oh well we may have missed a deadly neurodegenerative disease but in our defence the patient is still crazy."

25% misdiagnosis rate is unacceptably high IMO.

I applaud these researchers for subjecting one of these often discussed but rarely studied brain retraining programmes to empirical scrutiny. It's difficult to interpret the BDNF result due to the large baseline difference between trial arms in the % of patients on antidepressants (10% vs 36%)...

Pretty funny coming from a Lancet subspecialty journal. And what if you write to a government funded principal investigator of a trial and ask for summary data, not even raw data, and he tells you it no longer exists even though the paper was published 2 years ago? What recourse is there against...

A huge red flag.

I’ll try. The threads in question aren’t popping up on a Google search.

These sorts of papers are designed to give doctors even more justification to dismiss things as anxiety and hysteria. Once you have these lies on your chart, it's pretty much the kiss of death. A friend of mine had unexplained abdominal pain for years which was diagnosed as psychosomatic. A few...

Looks like the private lab peddling tests for these autoantibodies in ME/CFS and POTS is now looking to branch out into the new field of Long Covid. We discussed the huge overlap between normal controls and patients on these antibodies years ago on the other forum. There is nothing there. An...

I am skeptical of these claims. I have not kept up with this literature recently but a number of years ago a neurologist who diagnosed me with POTS referred me to an exercise programme that was specifically designed for POTS. Being the vexatious zealot that I am, I went and read the primary...