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Very unlikely. The College of Naturopathic Medicine is a shabby outfit which also trains people in homeopathy. The BPS crowd may be wrong and bad, but their arrogance derives from eminence. Self help authors who foist ghee on Saturday supplement readers are a bit downmarket for them.

Commenting below the line is pointless. However, many people in public life still treat this rag as the paper of record. So it would be great to see a magisterial rebuttal published as a letter to the editor, ideally orchestrated and signed by Forward ME or one of its members.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/10-easy-ways-to-reduce-your-fatigue-fast-tips-health-advice-2023-6c886m3hb Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/mklII GET gets a plug, too. As an occasional reader, I’ve been deeply irked by the Times’s vertiginous transformation into a Daily Mail lookalike...

Is it possible that you had accidentally time travelled to the 1970s?

I don’t think that one’s ability to imagine pain is necessarily bounded by previous experience of pain.

Nothing to see here.

Sometimes I wonder whether ME is just senescence praecox.

This is all good stuff and what one would hope for from the TUC. What would have been really helpful would have been a statement in there about the ineffectiveness of talking cures for these conditions. That would have sent a signal to Health in Unite, and any other unions representing NHS...

Very sadly, it seems she is no longer with us. Her name was Lily Silver. What a legacy of advocacy support to leave behind, though. https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/hLGkiDf9

It’s what the admin of the howtogeton wordpress site calls herself. She’s put a very comprehensive site together.

The article concludes as follows: There are a few things that people with ME/CFS can do to improve their microbiota. These include: Eat a healthy diet that is rich in fiber (prebiotics) and probiotics. Get regular exercise. Avoid antibiotics, if possible. Get sufficient sleep on a regular...

Susie Orbach, who as author of Fat is a Feminist Issue is referenced in the title, might get grumpy too. Psychodynamic psychotherapists often complain about CBT being used as a panacea. They don’t like the idea that trivial affirmations are enough to change behaviour, because they want patients...

ME is my only mobility problem. But as you say, it’s a matter of “likelihood”: unpredictability and caprice is built in. Yes. I was nominally hanging on to a role which I had invented, within a unique subcontracting entity, and from which I have currently stepped down anyway. And in line with...

It’s perhaps the worst mechanism imaginable for nationwide safety-net provision. Come the revolution, ban MPs from advocating for individual constituents and pour cash into CABs.

And in practice. I got PIP with the higher mobility rate while still working from home.

We have an ongoing thread about how to best manage the risk of bad-faith members exploiting S4ME content for horrid purposes. I’ll add “not inviting Isabel Oakeshott” to the list of quick win ideas.

I think that’s close to what happened here, as the analysis includes psychosomatic tropes: Descriptions of poor or adverse mental health experiences, either as a trigger for ME/CFS, or as a result of the unique burden of this illness

Sure. I suspect that most of us on this thread have. It’s why we’re writing in paragraphs on an old-school message board rather than migrating with everyone else to social media. But the chap at AfME is in the privileged position of knowing which particular writers and newsrooms he and Sonya C...

It depends on the people and the context. Journos are professionals and give reasonable attention to whatever they are writing about. Press releases have to be punchy to cut through, but once a journo is committed to doing a story - whether that’s 200 or 2000 words - they will spend 10 minutes...

It’s still much better than the average journo manages under their own steam. I hadn’t realised that there had been so much prior engagement, and all the points made above would certainly have resulted in improvement, but a) the perfect should not be the enemy of the good and b) some of the...