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So having brain damage is now a functional condition? The medical profession really has gone completely mad.

Psycho twice? Isn't that overkill? I can't help myself. Whenever I see this phrase what goes through my mind instantly is "Doctor thinks patient is lying, making things up, attention seeking, mentally ill, a hypochondriac. But the truth is the doctor's diagnostic abilities are crap."

That is horrifying! But, sadly, not surprising. :(

I'm just waiting for the advice to appear suggesting that sufferers learn chess or start doing sudoku puzzles i.e. GET for the brain, although they'll call it something else.

Yes, I know. But I hoped it was generic enough to apply to all sorts of papers.

I don't know if this is of any interest to anyone... Title : How to read a paper Subtitle : The basics of evidence based medicine https://www.ebcp.com.br/simple/upfiles/livros/001HTRP.pdf The above link gives the second edition of the book for free, but the latest edition (the sixth) is...

Can anyone tell me what the difference is between "functional somatic symptoms" and "psychosomatic symptoms" ? So, what does the word "somatic" mean in this context when the word "functional" isn't included? Real? I find it impossible to believe that 79.9% of children go into hospital with...

I'm not objecting to this having been posted because it's interesting. But what prompted it to be posted 10 years after it was first published?

It's actually fairly rare for the BBC to give clues to the papers they are reporting on. It really annoys me. Some newspaper sites online are the same.

Nothing would ever persuade me to take a statin. Just one of many issues I have with them is ... If statins reduce heart disease and thus reduce death rates from those heart conditions, then what do people die of instead? If the alternatives to dying of heart disease are to die of cancer or...

I have a sofa in my living room. I keep trying to call it an elephant but nobody else will indulge me. Bah!

What a waste of time, effort, and funding that was.

While in the past these disorders were presumed to be solely due to psychological issues This just looks as if the researchers are absolutely desperate to make patients accept that they have a "functional or psychological disorder" at any cost. Why? If people have biological symptoms why don't...

Yes, true. But a doctor coming out with such a horrible forecast that could affect hundreds of thousands or millions of people should have said that was what he was basing his comment on.

An N=1 comment... I used to smoke like a chimney. Not only that, but I smoked for a very long time (decades). I got help from the NHS to stop smoking using "Nicotine Replacement Therapy" and some meetings with a Stop Smoking Counsellor. It worked - I haven't smoked for over 11 years now. One...

Did he have any evidence for that remark, or was he just flapping his lips? Edit: What am I talking about? Covid has been around for no more than a year, so how could there be any evidence of early-onset dementia?

@rvallee This just tells me that people in the US who have had Covid-19 are going to be denied healthcare because, of course, being mentally ill is a choice, and they could get better if they wanted to. [sarcasm] For insurance companies and healthcare companies in the US it must have felt...

I've just taken another look at cbtwatch, and realised that the person who runs the blog appears to have stopped categorising his blogs. There are so many of them which mention IAPT but don't appear in the second link I gave. Anyone interested in the site might want to start from the present and...

The blog site cbtwatch has lots of information and statistics about how dreadful IAPT is ... http://www.cbtwatch.com/ See this link for the IAPT related blogs : http://www.cbtwatch.com/category/iapt/

I remember reading many years ago that the commonest cause of ordinary headaches is dehydration. So I started drinking some water if I got a headache just to see what would happen. I would say that it works to get rid of headache often enough that it is worth continuing this habit. If I am no...