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Interesting topic but uninformative abstract.

Useful to know, though I don't recall anyone pushing this particular hypothesis.

Sickly people with chronic illnesses are likely to have sickly children, nothing surprising there. Why does our society have to psychologise everything?

Supermarket here in Ireland actually had staff at the entrance only letting in people in batches every 45 minutes. Absolute panic and chaos. I'm glad I prepped 2 months ago when everyone thought I was crazy.

I used to be in the "sick but never sick camp" for almost a decade. A few years ago, coinciding with an improvement in my overall ME/CFS, a cold came and since then I've had a cold once a year every winter around November time. They last a long time and affect me much more than other people...

Videos like this are popping up on social media where Wuhan sounds like a zombie movie. Don't know if it's fake news but if it's real it looks like regular people are losing it from being housebound for what must seem like an eternity for people who don't have ME/CFS.

Yes, and the problem is worsening. I can't tell if it's due to ME or the fact that I haven't done any writing in so many years due to doing everything on the computer. When a new bank card arrived I realised I couldn't quite remember how to sign my name.

Interesting thread on chinese plumbing and sewage: Would explain why so many videos have emerged on social media of authorities welding shut entire apartment buildings. More than the virus itself I'm concerned about supply chain disruptions. So many critical industries have been outsourced...

Useful test. (If you're studying 90 year olds on a dozen meds, with dementia and multiple medical comorbidities.)

The expansion of the CBT lobby into medical illnesses like schizophrenia (with disastrous consequences for patients who require medical treatment for their severe symptoms) is really just a turf war between psychologists and psychiatrists.

IV saline has no long-term effect on the human body. I don't see how it could help produce apparent improvements and even remissions 6 months out.

Some people would argue that depression is a metabolic disturbance in the brain. Therefore, it's no wonder it is associated with physical inactivity and alterations in sleep cycle, appetite etc.

This conclusion would seem to be contradicted by a more recent study Ryan referenced above which suggested that orthostatic hyperventilation comes after. https://doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.02824

That's disturbing. I know someone who got told orthostatic symptoms were due to 'fear of standing'.

I'm aware, I wasn't suggesting hyperventilation. Still, it's a significant finding which should be investigated IMO. Why is it happening only upright?

Yes, tests that estimate premorbid IQ have a low ceiling. Insurance companies have a vested interested in denying claims of cognitive impairment. Misuse of neuropsych testing in litigation cases or by pseudo-scientists such as BPS researchers does not mean that neuropsych testing can't be used...

The study mentions this elephant in the room (hypocapnia when upright but not when supine) but does not discuss it or its implications as far as I can see.

You're not matching them for variance, you're matching them for mean premorbid intelligence. Yup, this is a big problem. We know that ME is the most common cause of long-term school absence and it's an illness that often strikes its victims in adolescence.