Search results

Maybe Fluge and Mella could weigh in on these comparisons of CBT between cancer and ME.

The weather isn't even particulary warm. It seems to be the adaptation process to warmer weather that is difficult and slow. Eventually I get used to even hot weather. Or maybe there is something else going on metabolically or immunologically in response to the warmer spring. A shift towards a...

For me, in some situations with certain symptoms, upping my salt intake is quite effective at reducing symptoms. I had to do this in the last month, presumably due to the warming weather. The symptoms that it improves are: fast heart rate, feeling stressed, chest pain, dizzy, orthostatic...

How would one determine that the amygdala and insula are being retrained? Has anyone actually checked that the treatment has a specific effect on the amygdala and insula?

During the first session, one group receives: While the other receives: So it's already clear what is expected of patients in the other group. Can you guess which one the good treatment is? :laugh:

I looked this test up and tried it. Upon completion, I stood up and began walking and had orthostatic hypotension, or in plain English my knees became weak and I nearly fell to the ground. Repetitive movements of this kind tend to trigger it. Therefore the authors may be recording the effect of...

Other than biomarkers, it would also be useful to establish a different approach to care for ME/CFS patients than the BPS approach.

The lack of biomarkers and practical diagnostic tests is the root of so many of our problems.

The idea that resistance to psychosomatic explanations for illness is due to stigma and not any legitimate reasons is such a typical argument by proponents of psychosomatic explanations. As if it's only people not wanting to admit that their illness is caused by emotions, and nobody disbelieves...

My theory why we see so much psychologizing of chronic illness: Healthy people often don't understand chronic illness. To them it looks like weird behaviours, people letting themselves go, silly and obviously unjustified anxieties, catastrophizing. They cannot comprehend the symptoms because...

I suspect Garner is rewriting the history of his illness. He prefers a story of how he defeated the illness by overcoming his negativity over a story of how he was genuinely terrified and helpless for a few months and then by sheer luck improved. So now he comes across as hypochondriac because...

Is pressure in the head related to orthostatic intolerance? In my experience yes. Why does it occur? Is it a cause or consequence of orthostatic intolerance (or low blood pressure)?

Is this based on reliable experiments or the detached from reality fantasies of a LP coach?

The narrative of psychosomatic illness may also be a way for some to express how difficult some events and experiences in their life were. "It was so bad that it caused my thyroid disease". From this angle psychosomatic illness may be almost exactly how somatization is often described: a way...

Can a psychological therapy stop the hair from falling out? I don't think it could.

These responses are very different from the problems that are typically labelled psychosomatic illness. That's why I think such examples are not a proof of concept of psychosomatic illness. Psychosomatic illness is unexplained illness with no clear cause, while these bodily reactions have a...

Responding to article in post 665 It's more about gender ideology than about long covid. The author is not very bright for thinking of long covid as an ideology. This is being quoted out of context. What was meant including suspected long covid patients in research even if they do not have a...

I had panic attacks and I think they are an example of thoughts influencing symptoms (but not an example of thoughts causing illness). Being frightened by the horrible sensations it produces would make the sensations worse. I believe they are caused by a sudden and inappopriate catecholamine...

The widespread poor methodology in studies of psychobehavioural interventions suggests difficulty obtaining positive results otherwise.

Children can be under a lot of pressure to deny or downplay their illness to make various adults happy.