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Fear is a great motivator for pretending to change.

After years of listening to BPS cabal in the media I'm always listening for the subtext. Wait for it . . . at some point it will become clear why TC is choosing to say this now. OR not. Maybe it's overthinking it. In my estimation there's always more to it than the obvious.

Personally, my reading between the lines take away is: patients are trying too hard to find happiness by grouping together and vilifying us BPS true believers. They should just chill and accept their lot already and allow us to help in our own little way. But of course this is just my...

Wouldn't a clue to how people using the term FND think about what FND means be in the treatment they believe will be useful in improving function?

I wonder if @Valerie Eliot Smith would be interested?

Interesting about the neurosymptoms website on FND that the author of the website (Jon Stone-Scotland) is co-author of a review that acknowledges that neuro symptoms of unknown origin are a hardware and a software problem yet writes on his site explanations of a software analogy only. Review...

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And there is still so much to learn about the nervous, endocrine and immune systems of the human body. Making discoveries here will provide us with better understanding of the interplay of mind and body. Psychology IMO is so far mostly sandcastles on the beach. It needs the data and structure...

So this and the difficulties for GP's in consultation paper have champions taking on board the problems for the BPS cabal in convincing the patient of their emotional illness. I can almost imagine them trolling through social media/forums looking for clues to how we think so as to best maneuver...

ThinkWell. They even gave it an obvious Orwellian name. Unabashed nonsense. Needs glaring stadium lights shone on this for maximum exposure. People with poor mental health are another group that will find it difficult to find the energy to protest. Also, technology is only secure until...

I agree entirely that diet will not cure ME. I was just pointing out that even if it were true Dr Myhill was omitting some important points that would render it a less than stellar treatment. It was never my intent in my post to say otherwise.

<satire> Well,that's harsh @rvallee . I mean, it's meaningful to them. Isn't that what counts? I think the more far out and twisted the more interesting it is for them to study. You don't want to bore them. More satanic ritual less environmental toxins have put my hypothalamus out of...

I don't know about consensus but even if she was absolutely correct about diet it completely misses the point as to the social aspects of this illness. Many cannot afford a change in diet nor can they cook for themselves nor can some even think their way through how to apply a new diet. So...

Yes, there's definitely arrogance involved with this thinking.

There is a bonus for psychologists who espouse this view. Using the concept of catastrophising and applying it willy-nilly will no doubt result in large numbers of people who feel their concerns are being dismissed so that those who's behaviour was quite reasonable in the situation may become...

As a non-science trained person I'm having some difficulty following this. For others like me there is a discussion of effect size; what it is/why it matters Here I'm kinda surprised they found so many psych studies that had replications. There seems to be no surmising as to why there is such...

The core issue then in working toward supposed viable measuring tools for poorly defined illness (complex neuropsychiatric disorder/aka difficult people) is the adopting of the subjective POV as primary over any objective measures. Very clever. Listen to patients tell BPS cabal that patients...

There are layers and layers of people involved in the bureaucracy of doling out the cash to individual grantees I think. And IMO the fact that they are not highly visible people there is no real accountablility. It's at least not clear to me where the buck stops in terms of who is responsible...

I looked around and saw all manner of declarative statements about many things. No hard science data anywhere. Although there was a long list of references to previous declarative statements all by the same author. This is not science. It's a belief system.

The whole point of all of the article content is to come to the conclusion that CBT is a very reasonable therapy that should be pursued (be not afraid) by people with ME. She lays the groundwork for this reasonable conclusion by showing how 'balanced' her views are in including opinions from...