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It's a pity that all the new research funding for corona virus will be of no benefit to us if ME is caused only by enteroviruses.

Yes, but all they did was to develop the concept of illness behaviour which was already developed in the US. All their ideas are already to be seen in the McHugh and Vallis book. I am not making a point about the US. I am sure there was a great deal of cross fertilisation of ideas; in the UK...

Don't understand that. Why are the feelings mixed?

I think that is what they call evidence based medicine

They are being guided by the science. So we were told.

I sometimes think it might be helpful to indicate that it was only recently that the Mayo clinic removed CBT and GET from their website, and that the UK fanatics might originally have obtained the basics, if not the particulars, of the treatment from the US. It seems rather divisive to pretend...

In @ScottTriGuy 's recent interviews with Hilary Johnson didn't she refer to earlier cses in LA in about 1979 or 80. There seems too little detail on all this. Probably it is impossible to put together the evidence.

Sorry to keep going on about this. I understand the dangers of boredom. However that text from Brain's 1962 book merely confirms the premise of the Twitter undertaking - the importance of going through the original and contemporaneous documents. It seems that much of what we have known is simply...

Oh, I don't know. I like a good narcissus - though i do admit that flower shows can be a trial.

Long COVID is neither well-defined nor well understood, in part because the research base is still in its infancy. That remark in the article struck me. Perhaps that is the problem with ME research. Still in its infancy.

Isn't Toronto a centre of excellence for such thinking. They even held a conference there.

Is that an improvement?

I wonder how long it will be before the CDC puts that letter back up on its noticeboard.

What is this BodyMind Approach with a registered trade mark which does not provide any financial or commercial conflict of interests?

https://www.s4me.info/threads/greetings-from-rotterdam.18299/page-3#post-313847 There is an intersting post attaching a copy of Brain's textbook on neurology from 1962, said to be the reason for the WHO listing of ME as a neurological condition in 1969. It will be seen that this raises the...

In that recording of Shiela Neal saying there still are now (1988) people who think it was hysteria, it would have been interesting if she had been pushed to say whom , in general terms, she was referring to. One wonders whether there was disagreement within the teams treating the patients.

It is a well known fact, at least since 1959, that long term sequelae of infectious diseases are the preserve of psychiatrists. Are they not all caused, or perpetuated by, prior psychological vulnerability? EDIT typo

@AR68 I thought you might like this paper from the BMJ Epidemic Myalgie Encephalomyelitis (nih.gov) Not for the text which seems a fairly routine 1957 description, but what are we to make of the juxtaposition? The continuation with "subliminal advertising" seems, at best, unfortunate. Do they...

It becomes even more annoying when she says "this is not a straightforward post-viral condition, and requires a different approach".

Note that key phrase "used to manage"