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It's good to see that all that money spent in the 50's in researching mind control wasn't wasted. Remind me. What was the early career of one of the founders of NLP. If you come across a Manchurian candidate, let us know.

It seems a liitle strange that the nature of the recovery is not made clear. We hear that he goes off to play at soldiers in the park with his friends, which in these days of restricted meetings and social distancing is odd. We hear nothing about resumption of his normal work routine. I expect...

Are we completely sure of that. I seem to recall that there was a group, which included Mowbray and, I think, Tyrell and Kerr, who claimed that they could not get funding because all the money went on PACE. However, I have forgotten the details. There was also the story @Graham told about...

The severity of the disease at onset being predictive of ME seems incompatible with the idea of insidious onset, which seems to have been accepted since the LA outbreak. Ther seems to be something missing.

A while ago I looked through the CBT Festschrift for Gelder and came away with the distinct impression that CBT started as a plausible treatment for anxiety and phobia and then extended into more and more implausible conditions. It always seemed that the fear of exercise had to be introduced...

I am always surprised that there always seems to be surprise that many long covid sufferers did not initially undergo hospitalisation. I wonder how many of us initially had an illness requiring hospitalisation. One might even argue that most of those at the RFH would not have been hospitalised...

It's a pity that he didn't make clear where he stands on the issue of CFS. Safest to be on the fence.

I'm sure that, in a sense, you are right. There is one thing that troubles me, though. The comment about curing effort syndrome was made in a paper in 1986. This view was probably held for some years before that. Can we be sure that papers written after 1986 were not prejudiced by this...

Perhaps entomologists are not best placed to observe elephants. Whether in rooms, or not. Sorry. I could not resist. I say such things all the time.

Presumably that would have been the work of Edwards. The other one. The problem there was that he seemed to believe that if he could find nothing wrong with the muscle, then there was nothing wrong. And "You can cure your effort syndrome if you really want to". There was no wider perspective...

That so, so clever title tells you all you need to know. Most people would think of that, give themselves a pat on the back, then think why they could not possibly use it.

I just thought I would point out that, having looked up the quotation cited by Hooper in the rapid response, the article on the treatment process in the CIBA material is from David Mechanic of Rutgers University.

That NYTimes article seems generally good, but I am getting distinctly ratty about the history of ME as it is presented to journalists. The US role in the psychiatrisation of the condition seems always to be whitewashed. What about Imboden, Canter and Cluff , and Eisenberg, and Strauss, and the...

That above post by Frankie seems to indicate the major area of concern. There seems to be a desire to obtain a special compensatory package not available to those with similar conditions. I would not want to have to draft that. How would it be known whether people caught the virus in the course...

The other problem with the tweet from Amy Small is that it suggests a unity of approach, for which there is no evidence. We do not know the deliberate intent of other groups, although the good intentions of the others may be open to question. The most likely explanation is that there are diverse...

Presumably that would be the person who indicated that an ability to undertake thirty minutes light exercise constituted "recovery".

What if the diagnostician has a defective personality type which causes him to mis-evaluate his patients?

Would you seek medical advice from a "life science marketing researcher"?

It is interesting to see, in the responses, a proponent of "long-covid is not ME" going on to give such an accurate description of ME.

This is all most unfair. It must be rememberd that patients are not to be regarded as adults , to be given an accuate assessment of their condition to the best knowledge, information and belief of the practitioner, or should that be High Priest. To give them the information might hinder the...