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The BPS club have made much of the distinction between illness and disease over the years, especially earlier on. It is one of their foundational arguments for claiming no organic (primary) pathology. You know, the ol' dualism they claim to be battling. At the practical survival level, at...

This is one change I fully support. The poverty trap is very real. I have not checked the rules for a while, but in Australia at least it also applies to other aspects of your life, not just employment status. It is also affected by relationship status, and often in a fairly punitive way that...

MW's work is a mixed bag. Some excellent info and points and references in there. Best used selectively, and as source for other sources. Generally I would not cite them directly. That said, I am grateful to them for their work. No doubt it is not fun to have to go through it all. Like all...

"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" Not a good start. Summary: Exercise doesn't deliver meaningful sustained benefits, therefore we must do more research into exercise.

I was not sure what gender I was at first, but then I transitioned to male and have been quite satisfied ever since. [biology joke]

:laugh: Silly man. Everybody knows parsnips have to be roasted to activate their therapeutic properties. :rolleyes:

They have been fed that line by the BPS club.

Wessely is a political animal from start to finish.

In case anybody ever thinks we are ever being too hard on Wessely: He was doing this before any trials had been done assessing his claims.

Asking (honest) questions about PTSD in ME/CFS, including where it lies in the causal chain, would require them to also ask why patients have PTSD in the first place. The (honest) answers to which they are unlikely to find comforting or flattering, and which are likely to seriously diminish...

Hmm. Could have started better.

Perhaps also in part being masked by necessities of day to day survival. I have sometimes wondered if we have gone beyond conventional PTSD, into a qualitatively different place, where it almost doesn't matter, and is just not particularly relevant any more. Just a thought.

Does vanilla ice cream count as greens? Asking for a friend, of course.

And a vast sense of moral superiority.

And sometimes even when there is a diagnosis.

negotiation of an acceptable management plan, Does the patient have the right to withdraw from 'negotiations', without being penalised?

Once in power political beliefs tend to become, um, flexible.

Indeed. It just proves how broken and politicised the whole system has become. Where are the technical/funding panels, the ethical oversight committees, and peer-reviewers/editors on this? Why are they waving this shit through in the first place? Why is nobody holding them to account? How is...

I have been getting both Covid and standard flu vaccines here (Australia; Covid since they first became available, and flu since my late 50s), and have not encountered any problems getting them and for free.

I will follow my usual plan of relying on the Summary for Dummies from those members who do get it. :bucktooth: :D