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Patients are getting shafted three times: First by the disease, then by the medical profession, then by governments and the insurance industry and broader society. Must be those sweet sweet secondary benefits of the 'sick role' we keep getting promised.

Sounds interesting, but it is behind a paywall.

disturbances of body image Yet again, how do they know that causal attribution is correct?

Any discussion in there about the adverse consequences of inappropriate psychosocial attributions and 'treatments'?

The fundamental problem being that there is no treatment. Difficult to access any when they don't exist.

Wise choice. :thumbup:

@Snow Leopard

Clear your calendar for a week afterwards. First 3 days or so after the first Shingrix were pretty rough for me. The second shot was much easier.

Yep. It is beyond dispute now that these clowns have no interest at all in our welfare. They have no excuses left whatsoever, and could not make their real intentions and agenda any clearer. The failure and corruption is as complete and brazen as it gets. They are beyond all saving or reform...

Sorry world. But not in the slightest bit surprised. This is the reality here too, always has been. Clearly the Anglosphere is just a complete fucking disaster on this. We created the disaster, and are doing everything we can to perpetuate and exacerbate it. Don't rely on us to save you. She...

A standard of 50m gain over 6 weeks rehab is pathetic. Either this is a fundamentally different form of deconditioning being experienced by patients, which would require a fundamentally different approach. Or there is no significant deconditioning to reverse.

Good in principle, but not always in practice.

I see what you did there. :thumbup:

Indeed. It has been noted for decades, including in the formal literature IIRC, that one way to differentiate ME/CFS from depression is to ask a patient what they would do if they were suddenly cured. ME/CFS patients typically have a long list of things they would like to do. Depressive...

Same here. More one of the earliest noticeable consequences than a cause.

To continue attempting a task, however imperfectly, and at high effort cost, requires high motivation and intention. And to decline to do so may well be the only rational choice. But no, the authors have to use prejudicial words like apathy, and lack of interest and enthusiasm. Really, they...

They reported more severe physical symptoms, elevated psychological distress and reduced functioning than those not meeting the criteria. Which is exactly what you would see in patients with unresolved, disabling, and horrible physical symptoms. It is circular definitional nonsense. Just...

Negative association between these regions in our findings substantiate the presence of apathy in pwLC, i.e. a lack of interest and enthusiasm towards solving the energy-demanding cognitive exercise. Which is exactly what you would expect to see in people who cannot do those task due to...

Yeah, why was Wessely even allowed to see the article before going public, let alone 'review' it? Do we have that right for any article he writes about us?

DARVO, par exellence. Way too many fingers in way too many pies. A stark warning about why power needs to be limited.