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Psychother Psychosom. 2007;76(3):171-6. Is a full recovery possible after cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome? Knoop H1, Bleijenberg G, Gielissen MF, van der Meer JW, White PD. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic fatigue...

Good to see the Knoop et al., 2007 full recovery paper being criticised.

Note that this is from around a decade ago.

This is a Dutch study. I doubt there is any connection.

Here are the 12 areas they asked about: If they had asked about other symptoms, other things may have come up higher than the 3 they highlighted

99.4% of those classified as having CFS reported postexertional malaise. However 53.9% of those who were not classified as having CFS also reported the symptom. This figure for controls seems very high and makes me question the validity of whatever question was used. They may have translated...

It would have been interesting if they'd also used and reported on a more strict threshold such as a score greater than or equal to 6, as was used as an entry criterion in PACE Trial.

I don't believe they specify which threshold they used.

These don't seem to have been used with regard to diagnosis or exclusions. Also they don't seem to have published any data on them in the paper.

Internet therapy for fatigue syndrome is effective and safe 02-02-2018 Behavioral therapy via the Internet for people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as ME, helps and is safe. This appears from research by the AMC and Radboudumc, which was published yesterday by The British...

It is odd to see that only 20.7% of those classified as having CFS reported having unrefreshing sleep. Unrefreshing sleep is usually one of the most most frequently reported symptoms in CFS cohorts. 14% of those not satisfying the CFS criteria also reported unrefreshing sleep.

It was odd to see a higher prevalence in males. I'm not sure I've ever seen that before in CFS studies.

As well as the questionnaire, they did use this.

There is a thread of tweets on this here:

Yes I always thought the fact that SEID spelt dies backwards was completely irrelevant. I thought that ME/SEID to replace ME/CFS would be a way to go. We could see which would survive.

North-east family speak of ME ordeal January 30, 2018 https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/uncategorized/1402870/exclusive-north-east-family-speak-of-me-ordeal/ They are presumably talking about Esther Crawley's service

I have to wonder whether this article was prompted in some way by publicity for the event given the timing. They are presumably talking about Esther Crawley's service I have set up a separate thread on this: https://s4me.info/threads/scotland-north-east-family-speak-of-me-ordeal.2193/

https://www.nrshealthcare.co.uk/articles/condition/chronic-fatigue-syndrome

I remember one person writing to the group I help run and saying she had no money to donate but at the same time she was asking about a few different therapies. She said she had spent over £20,000 at that stage trying different therapies. This was the 1990s so that would be a lot more in today's...