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  1. TiredSam

    United Kingdom: Sussex & Kent ME/CFS Society News

    That really is a bit of a stretch. "mutually respected within their own little bubble" would have been more accurate.
  2. TiredSam

    Tests for borrelia (Lyme)

    Doesn't surprise me in the least that KDM would add it to the list of expensive tests he can charge his patients for. https://www.s4me.info/threads/red-lab-belgium-experiences.14061/#post-252193
  3. TiredSam

    Well-known, famous people with Covid-19 and Long Covid

    Do we really want Piers Morgan on our side? He seems perfectly qualified to join the ranks of those who have spoken up for us only to become a complete liability and embarrassment later on.
  4. TiredSam

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    It's interesting to see where a homeopath goes when they're looking to expand their business. Hardly an advert for the BPS brigade - being what homeopaths do next.
  5. TiredSam

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    I teach English to a psychotherapist. It's how she explained to me her objections to the amount of statistics psychology students have to learn these days. She genuinely believes that psychotherapy should be exempt from the rigours of the scientific method because statistical studies don't...
  6. TiredSam

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    Gotta take my hat off to Russell Malcolm for taking the BPS scam one step further. Use an empathic and holistic psychosocial survey to identify perpertuating factors for which there are no objective data, then treat them with homeopathy. It's brilliant - cure a fictional cause with a fictional...
  7. TiredSam

    BMJ: Chronic fatigue syndrome and Long Covid, moving beyond the controversy, 2021, Newman

    Statements like this consistently and deliberately miss the point. There is no psychological stigma or dualistic debate. If PWME stigmatise or debate anything, it's Sir Simon and his ilk's empire-building horseshit. That's all. We have no problem with psychology and no interest in a "dualistic...
  8. TiredSam

    Trial By Error: CBT Model of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Explained; CBT Trial for Q-Fever Fatigue

    The thumb is in the pudding. They do self-correct - if the results are poor, they correct them themselves.
  9. TiredSam

    Guess the correlation

    Rubbish game.
  10. TiredSam

    NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Tiredness/Fatigue in adults (includes CFS).

    The landscape hasn't changed, her perception of it has. It was all there for her to see in 2018 if she had wanted to.
  11. TiredSam

    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    He could have had a great career in psychological research if he'd managed to change that attitude. Hey, he could even have been as respected as Sir Simon for his contributions to the field.
  12. TiredSam

    UK Action for ME - policies, actions and publications - discussion thread

    That was AfME in the past, and they were unresponsive to any attempts at dialogue. I don't. Whilst there is a lot of scope for people to take their own approach, some things are still true or not true, right or wrong. Some things are abusive and harmful, and the fact that some organisations or...
  13. TiredSam

    UK Action for ME - policies, actions and publications - discussion thread

    Those who have valid concerns about AfME should be able to express them. AfME have an absolutely appalling history, and still have a way to go on some fronts. The fact that they have made some progress and we can now co-operate with them on some matters does not mean that concerns should no...
  14. TiredSam

    Yet another NHS reform !

    I'm not sure it's politics, I noticed the same when I was teaching in multi-national corporations. My students would tell me (and I was there long enough to see it for myself) - every 2-5 years there'd be a new concept and a reorganisation, trumpeted with enthusiasm by those who introduced it...
  15. TiredSam

    United Kingdom: Action for ME (AfME) news

    That seems to be exactly what happened when someone had a go at this in 2018, resulting in a "no further action" letter from the Commission: https://memanchester.wordpress.com/afmecomplaint/
  16. TiredSam

    CBT for CFS Therapist Manual PAEDIATRIC CFS TEAM, ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL, BATH, UK Loades, M.E. & Starbuck, J. | 2020

    It really is a thing. Here's a burlesque dancer with plans for a modelling career and a link to her facebook page at the end of the article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/couldnt-out-bed-eight-months-6438056 Here's a former "party girl and burlesque dancer [another one!] with...
  17. TiredSam

    CBT for CFS Therapist Manual PAEDIATRIC CFS TEAM, ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL, BATH, UK Loades, M.E. & Starbuck, J. | 2020

    Miss X usually had something to sell, by the time you reached the bottom of those articles there was always a modelling agency to contact or a fund to donate to or a book to buy or a course to go on.
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