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I do sometimes wonder if these folk has some sort of Random Hypothesis Generator software

Starting point for a study?

Again, I think I'm being misunderstood. People seem to think I'm suggesting two mutually excusive things. I'm not. Both effects happen concurrently. I am a strong advocate of locking down for all the reasons stated. And I have been saying and trying to convince people I know, that when something...

Exactly. If you thought I was suggesting to not lockdown then I was misunderstood. I just find it difficult if the very real consequences of lockdown seem not to be also recognised. I also fully agree that delays in locking down inevitably leads to the worst of both worlds, because massive...

Surely a secondary effect of lockdown has to be its impact on public health, by way of delayed treatments, people avoiding doctors and hospitals, mental health issues from destroyed livelihoods etc., etc.

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Hear hear. Touching to see how this has been inching up the last couple of hours:

Wrong ... 98% ;)

And if you spot a fire starting in a waste paper basket in the living room, you don't say "Let's wait and see what happens, and see if we can avoid making a mess" - the inevitable result being the fire has taken drastic hold by the time procrastination gives way to panic. In reality you zap the...

In which case cutting in half repeatedly would soon get down to a much lower level, each reduction being done as soon as obvious the level currently reduced to is unsustainable. Whether that would be every day, every few days, I don't know. But it's a classic way of rapidly homing in on a...

Draining implies energy consuming; given it counts as cognitive in some way, then I agree it probably does consume energy. But maybe better to clarify it being the cognitive energy drain that is significant, to avoid conflation with "being emotional", and the psycho-babble connotations of that.

I didn't really twig. Hope I didn't misunderstand and say the wrong thing. Was replying to my thinking you saying you were coping well and your illness stable.

Glad to hear this Jonathan.

This is especially good to know:

Yes, worded so that however things turn out, they can say that was what they meant.

I think the notion of a "primary cause" is ambiguous in itself. Is it a newly-introduced terminology? Typically there is the BPS notion of some kind of illness acting as an initial trigger, such as a virus, and then something else then perpetuating the resultant deconditioning, in the form of...

A good friend and colleague died a few years ago from cancer, but before he got really ill and was still able to work, he told me the counselling sessions he and his wife both had were incredibly helpful for them both. But I don't know if counselling counts as psychotherapy or not.

The Cochrane link doesn't work for me. One thing confuses me: If the above is with reference to the Chalder MS study you linked to, then the control group is not of healthy patients. Seems to be saying it is from the same recruitment of MS patients, but receiving Relaxation Training, so that...