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Is pressure in the head related to orthostatic intolerance? In my experience yes. Why does it occur? Is it a cause or consequence of orthostatic intolerance (or low blood pressure)?

Is this based on reliable experiments or the detached from reality fantasies of a LP coach?

The narrative of psychosomatic illness may also be a way for some to express how difficult some events and experiences in their life were. "It was so bad that it caused my thyroid disease". From this angle psychosomatic illness may be almost exactly how somatization is often described: a way...

Can a psychological therapy stop the hair from falling out? I don't think it could.

These responses are very different from the problems that are typically labelled psychosomatic illness. That's why I think such examples are not a proof of concept of psychosomatic illness. Psychosomatic illness is unexplained illness with no clear cause, while these bodily reactions have a...

Responding to article in post 665 It's more about gender ideology than about long covid. The author is not very bright for thinking of long covid as an ideology. This is being quoted out of context. What was meant including suspected long covid patients in research even if they do not have a...

I had panic attacks and I think they are an example of thoughts influencing symptoms (but not an example of thoughts causing illness). Being frightened by the horrible sensations it produces would make the sensations worse. I believe they are caused by a sudden and inappopriate catecholamine...

The widespread poor methodology in studies of psychobehavioural interventions suggests difficulty obtaining positive results otherwise.

Children can be under a lot of pressure to deny or downplay their illness to make various adults happy.

Abstract The pathophysiology of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and Q fever fatigue syndrome (QFS) remains elusive. Recent data suggest a role for neuroinflammation as defined by increased expression of translocator protein (TSPO). In the present study we investigated neuroinflammation in female...

I would like to know if the biomedically trained members can think of a way to connect a nonsense mutation of m-cadherin to orthostatic intolerance or ME/CFS.

My own explanation for Garner's behaviour: Identifying with ME threatened his friendships and self-image. The illness was also terrifying. When it passed after a few months, he created a new narrative that fit his old identity and the belief system of his old social circle. In this new...

Is getting death threats is a quick way to elevate your status in UK academia?

Yes it's horrible that in the media there are these nonchalant conversations about whether patients are imagining it, making themselves ill with their beliefs, able to recover but choosing not to and so on. It's not normal. One shouldn't propose such ideas without some kind of evidence.

On most days I'm able to do a 20 minute walk and have done so for the last year or two. This has no noticable positive effect on the illness. Doing more than what I can tolerate quickly leads to a worsening. It does seem to lower heart rate somewhat and maintain some fitness that would otherwise...

Exercise is a dead end because there's no reason to think the disease has much to to with low fitness. That's just an idea popularized by the early CBT/GET papers which sought to rationalize the treatment.

Someone seems to be lying. She worked with Wessely at the time. I wonder someone instigated her to deal with criticism from patients by making up a death threat story, or she received a call from someone pretending to be a reporter.

My focal epilepsy can create sensations that are never felt otherwise and do not obey the usual rules of what I'm normally supposed to be able to perceive. It is very much like a dream in that aspect.

A voyeurism that is excited by psychosomatic cases and doesn't really want to know whether they actually are psychosomatic cases or not.

In Nicaragua, it is apparently normal to believe in demons as cause of illness. In other places it's normal to believe in psychosomatic causes of illlness, but just because something is a commonly accepted belief doesn't mean it's any more valid scientifically.