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BPS abuse predicts treatment outcome. The perpetrators are manipulative, predatory, groom their victims and like to establish themselves in high status public positions so they can carry on their abuse in broad daylight. #M.E. too.

A friend of my wife is a practitioner. She performed her art upon my head in our kitchen. My duties as a polite host prevented me from saying "but this is a whole load of ridiculous horse-shit" so I went along with it, much as I would have if someone has asked me if I'd like to hear their...

Bullshit. It could lead young people to believe that recovery is unusual, because it is. That could be tempered by the news that younger people seem to have better prospects. But what some people speculate other people might believe shouldn't be a guiding factor here. How about just telling...

I think of this often when trying to work out whether I really have improved in the last few years, or have just got used to it and adapted.

No, I don't. I have improved a lot over the last couple of years. My sitting HR is often 50-70 now, and when I stand up, it rarely goes over 100. I can walk a bit faster, and when my monitor beeps that my HR is 116 (the alarm goes if my HR goes over 102) I can ignore that for a couple of minutes...

In the early stages of ME, when standing up, my heart rate would sometimes shoot up to 120 and I'd feel very "wobbly". At the charite in Berlin where I got my diagnosis of ME, this is from my blog: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/blog-articles/trip-to-the-charite-in-berlin-part-7.1960/ At a...

I have attended two clinics believing I may have POTS, my evidence being what I had read on forums as a new patient and my observations using a heart rate monitor. Turns out I didn't really have evidence and I don't have POTS.

I wasn't aware that we had any reliable figures, just various narratives.

Well if we're allowed to use any letters to make an acronym ... Cost-EFFectiveness of psychosomatic therapy for patients frequentLy attending primary care with medically UnExplaiNed sympToms

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51134545 What could go wrong?

In Germany there are private doctors who offer a mitochondrial energy test, eg this fellow: http://www.praxisvantreek.de/ He also offers natural healing, alternative gynacology, LDN, cannabis as medicine, "healing touch", and gives talks on the dangers of vaccinations (which can cause...

Yep, when I'm symptomatic, anything to do with communication / language is the first thing to go, but I can still play chess or read. When that goes, I can still watch Southpark. If that goes, it's time to lie down and close my eyes.

I only have symptoms from physical overexertion. One of my symptoms is brain fog, cognitive issues like being unable to concentrate, remember, find words, follow a conversation etc. But this only happens as a result of physical overexertion. I can play chess for hours without symptoms, or read...

A statement from the performers: https://www.capoeiraforall.org/capoeira-for-all-gticp-performance-statement/

Yes, the diagram is a very accurate description for me. I have learnt to identify and heed the warnings (I know I'm lucky to have warnings before it's too late). My ME started as described under "long term" for many months. When I realised what was going on and adapted, I had "short term"...

Wessely avoids precision at all costs, so you'll be very lucky to get a clear answer to that. The difference between the sausage machine and proper CBT is [insert self-deprecating bonhomie smokescreen here].

Well if we're trading anecdotes, there are women doctors around who can be thoroughly unpleasant to male patients. Not something I've experienced for a while, but when younger I noticed that occasionally a middle-aged woman doctor (perhaps sadly let down by men in her private life, who knows?)...

You're right, ridiculous concept. Esther would never agree to it.

Is it just me who finds that funny?

I don't suppose there's any chance of a control group where what the chronic illness sufferers say is taken at face value?