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Especially when repeated from different angles.

10 steps forward, 9 steps back. Every. Damn. Time. :grumpy:

Gee, I can't imagine why that might be.

Yes, thank you @Trish. re SMC: I find the whole concept of a single authoritative source of scientific 'truth' repugnant and disturbing in the extreme. I agree that the SMC, as both a fact and a concept, should be discarded permanently.

Cheers :hug:

'First they came for the communists...' First they came for the disabled children, actually. ––––––– @adambeyoncelowe, @Keela Too

Enough said.

Holidays, of any form, did nothing for me. :thumbsdown:

Or that patients are having to pay more attention to how they move because of organic pathology affecting movement, and that because, among other possible reasons, it also involves pain the emotional centre is also activated.

cognitive, somatic, and behavioral symptoms (CSBS) Medicine by acronym.

Very much appreciating your input here, @hibiscuswahine It is important that we don't write off all of psychiatry/psychology on the basis of our experience with them. From my experience the vast majority of ME patients are not anti-psych in any way. But we are very firmly anti-substandard...

We have a long way to go, people. :grumpy:

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Indeed. There is an important distinction between a disease process being in place and active, and it reaching the level of sufficient harm or consequences where the symptoms become expressed at a clinical level. I have osteoarthritis, currently with a moderate level of symptom expression...

Translation: 'It is not our fault the rest of you are idiots.' The real problem is that we understood all too clearly, through hard earned lessons, what they meant by CBT & GET, and the consequences of it.

Patients described the need to accept disease-imposed limitations and life adjustments. As we have been saying for decades.

Negative, as defined by...?

And tinnitus is exactly the same as having ME.

Supplementary Result: Wearing some form of actimeter for an extended period does not seem to be a burden for patients.

Prof Crawley. Specialty: superficial paternalistic infantilising intrusive micromanagement, especially if you don't need it.