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Professor of psychosomatic medicine calls patients stupid. What are the chances? Just call them muppets why don't you?

Didn't work for me, I tried allergy shots for 2 years and I still sneeze when the hazel's out. It was bugger all use. So it would be quite a fair analogy actually, except that allergy shots rarely leave people wheelchair bound and unable to tolerate light or sound.

Free entertainment from those clowns again. Clare Geralda complaining about someone being patronising, SW complaining about someone being over-certain and unquestioning. I'm going to have to start ordering my irony meters in bulk if they carry on like this. Where are Sharpe and White? They can...

Helen Nicholls seems genuine. Many people believe that they have been cured of various ailments by homeopathy, reiki, etc etc, because at the time of their improvement that was the thing they happened to be trying. Statistically there will be some people who improve whilst doing GET, just as...

Nice to see that in a mainstream news article.

:grumpy: Meh. s'pose. It's certainly now looking as if the journalist is on-side. I'll continue to reserve judgement on the newspaper. My own brand of CBT (Curmudgeonly Bugger Therapy) has served me very well for the last 6 years and led to significant improvement. I'll not be giving it up easily.

Yes I thought about Rod Liddle's article in the last few days for some reason. It's great to see these articles today, but really they are no more than we are due, very late, and still contain horrendous GET nonsense. For a long time the Times & co have been a big part of the problem, and even...

Hmm. Reporters and editors have a lot of leeway in deciding who to interview, what to include, and how to report it. If they choose to reproduce harmful filth I'd like to think there'd be some accountability or sense of responsibility. I did wonder whether the "spokeswoman" was included as an...

Whereas there is a mountain of evidence of cases of pediatricians deliberately fabricating illness in relation to ME. Come on journalist, do a proper job, you're nearly there.

Very nice of the Times to have an ME blitz, but I wish they'd pace themselves at 2-per-week in accordance with my free article limit.

Unfortunately not: But the spokeswoman (as in "let me put a spoke in your wheel") is the only person in the whole article who gets to remain anonymous, presumably because of the threat to her life from ME militant activists.

Thanks, I've reached my 2-article free limit for this week.

What next - a takedown of the SMC?

An odd article which manages to go from brilliant at the start to horrendous at the end. Must be someone's concept of "balance". A few trolls in the comments section as well.

Fluff. Sleep hygiene, healthy eating and pop psychology (usually introduced with "we know that ... "), have 5 portions of fun a day ... mindfulness ... notice the beauty of the world around you ... Talks about acceptance and commitment, ie accepting what you can't change, but then it turns out...

That's the whole of their sales pitch, right there. The rest is just waffle and padding. The prospective customers (politicians and insurance industry) prefer these barely plausible but cost-saving beliefs to be dressed up to sound sciency (makes it easier to justify to the public and the media...

No case to answer unless he provides evidence. Just more stigmatisation of ME sufferers.

I agree. Real mental illnesses are real. But our "mental illness" isn't real, it was invented by psychs. And that's not funny either. And accusing us of stigmatising mental illness is a card they like to play to shut us up and invalidate us when we point out that we don't have a mental illness...

Ricky Gervais gives M.E. another mention in his second series of Afterlife on Netflix (contains lots of swearing):

I wonder how the body would tell you that there was something physically wrong with it that needed dealing with now? Doesn't seem very efficient to use the same signalling system (symptoms) for 2 different messages. So the BPS crew are basically saying "we know how to distinguish between the...