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There's already anxiety without anxiety so it was a natural development. And yeah like oldtimer said there's also depression without depression. And deconditioning without deconditioning. Basically words don't matter in BPSland.

It's perversely ironic and backwards, as one thing that defines PR is roughly the same as a spy: if people know you did it, you did it poorly. The SMC always promotes itself, which is unusual in PR. But because everything they do is projection, they say about others what they do themselves. Is...

Interesting find. As far as I am concerned this is accurate, the SMC is a PR organization, but here it's plainly stated. Not sure what's the source. Why does a PR organization have such influence?

It's high time that we recognize that although the Wessely BPS school of thought has been especially successful at forcing their way onto practice, this problem is widespread throughout all medicine. Delusional beliefs are the norm on the issue of conversion disorder because belief in conversion...

Functional Neurological Disorders and COVID-19 Vaccine: a Call for Action Fung and Fasano Currently online ahead of print, no abstract available ******************************************** Copied post It's high time that we recognize that although the Wessely BPS school of thought has been...

Missed this one at the time.

Don't think we've seen glimpses at the GET program in the app before. Apparently they won't tell the patients what's in it before they agree to use it. And they seem to know they're not supposed to do GET, but doing it anyway and calling it something else is fine. So they are clearly doing...

Let me guess, this will lead to increased funding for IAPT. As it tradition in EBM, when the evidence doesn't confirm the aspirations, it's just ignored or interpreted in a way that blames some random thing out there. Don't know if anyone watched the West Wing but this is genuinely "illness...

I guess it makes sense to people who believe in cultural illness that science is also cultural and works differently across borders. Especially for people who don't understand what science is about. But to require such a major surgery and then not even care that it changes nothing is just vile...

Oh, my derp. I didn't look at the date. I don't remember seeing it though, but that may be because of my terrible memory.

The SMC published this. Probably through gritted teeth and much confusion. Ironic as the CEO writes about the opposite and calls us Nazis for... saying the same thing.

The Forever Disease: How Covid-19 Became a Chronic Condition https://newrepublic.com/article/161102/covid-19-long-haulers-chronic-disease-health-care (Paywalled but it says I can read 3 free articles per month) Long-form article so mostly skimmed. Not bad overall, mostly on the overlap with ME...

This is basically identical to mouth-foaming over what the "founding fathers intended in writing the constitution in the late 18th century" that is crippling American politics. Or splits in a religion over a new text by some dude who liked to hammer papers on doors. I have no idea how it makes...

The main goal of science is to determine "does it, here, in those conditions?". And they're not doing that because none of this is scientific in any way, because EBM is an alternative method that yields unreliable, but desirable results. Remaining at the vague stage of "can" is one thing, but...

Clinical practice guide for assessment and management of adults withpost-acute sequelae of COVID-19 Guidance for NSW health clinicians https://aci.health.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/726878/ACI-CPG-for-assessment-and-management-of-adults-with-post-acute-sequelae-of-COVID-19.pdf...

Potentially significant. The chairman/big boss of the Los Angeles Times, a multibillionaire physician, seems rather alarmed about Long Covid. He has the kind of media influence, the LAT is a huge publishing network, to affect public perception. In the end it's all about who gets sick, who they...

Same organization, uh? Explicitly making Long Covid about mental health and seems to be some program about resilience and happiness in dealing with symptoms. Or whatever. I think the same government recently refused to do anything medically relevant, no funding for research or clinics...