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I find it amusing that they are misleading each other with false narratives of false illness beliefs.

We are sadly immersed in a culture of credulousness towards psychogenic illness, and it's essentially the major medical superstition in this modern age.

I think what we can look forward to is more people in position of authority feeling safe to speak up about ME/CFS or questioning the idea of psychogenic illness. Social change in other words. The MUS/PACE forces seem to be disorganized and ineffective at the moment after being dealt such a heavy...

How do you end up having lunch with journalists? What is the, ahem, strategy?

What is depression supposed to be anyway, it mostly seems like a label applied to all sorts of problems that share a reduction in vitality as common symptom.

Does anyone understand what is meant? Evidently the author wants to impress with superior intellect, but it's just gibberish.

There may also be an aspect to it that historically illnesses that are not understood are viciously psychologized (if we cannot find out what's wrong, then the patient's thinking, feeling, or behaviour must somehow be causing the symptoms or an incorrect perception of illness). Psychiatry is...

Jay Watts is from the UK, and the British Dictionary defines neoliberalism as

An article by Dr Jay Watts in the Independent. As a psychologist I see the fantasy of neoliberal values having a devastating effect on mental health treatment The Tories may believe in the ‘dignity’ of work, but not everyone can function as expected. People with serious needs are being...

Sounds like self-esteem is a bit lacking and like a call to raise barriers between the discipline of psychiatry and the lay public. After all, only the elite can understand why, for example, the PACE trial is a thing of beauty.