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Well, that's the PACE model: make shit up, break everything, provide no benefits whatsoever, give yourself a perfect grade. That's just the BPS wayTM.

More whitewashing. Still listed under research. Retroactive exemption from having failed basic (optional) requirements. The original article doesn't appear to have been updated so one would have to look for the correction to find it. This is all a sham. Zero respect for the most basic...

Yes! I mentioned home visits here but for most circumstances telemedicine would work just as well. I am skipping going to see my GP this year because it's frankly an ordeal and doesn't make any difference. However a short video chat would probably work just as well. Not much has changed since...

At some point it'd be really great if people, especially in medicine, stopped using the same tired old trope of people seeking attention and magical benefits of pretending to be sick when it is shown over and over again how it completely defies all common sense, that it's not even worth the...

Have they ever met sick people? How are people who work in this field unaware that there are sick people out there who are too ill to leave the house? They don't understand either that this does not magically make those people less sick and thus "motivated" to go to the clinic? Or just don't...

Timely link I found on the CFS sub-reddit: https://people.com/health/extreme-dry-eye-left-fox-news-shannon-bream-suicidal-i-was-in-pain-all-the-time/. Eye pain of a kind intense enough some patients suicide. Told she was hysterical. Found a diagnosis herself through forum. Treatment worked, not...

There really is a shocking number of physicians out there who put their personal opinion far above the lives of millions. That's definitely not optimal. No wonder so little progress is being made when decades are wasted on insisting that it's the patients who are wrong.

That's a blatant lie. No excuse for this. It's a grotesque lie.

That literally contradicts the CBT model, that we need our thoughts and behaviors changed. Wanting to change is not consistent with having to change behavior. It undercuts the whole model as fully as dropping actimetry because PACE participants are reasonably active while the very model is...

Over 2 decades and still only ever have anecdotes to show for it. Zero refutation of all the evidence against, always trotting out anecdotes and personal feelings, dangling some ridiculous hope that it may just work eventually. 2 decades used in practice in many countries. Thousands and...

Awards. Recognition. Fame. Self-serving ego stroking. All of which are more important that literally millions of lives. People involved in these psychosomatic ideologies seem to think of us as mere statistics, not much different than lego figurines. They have built paper-thin caricatures of who...

Especially as the most likely to be prescribed drugs will be antidepressants and even most psychiatrists are either oblivious or in denial about the severe side-effects and withdrawal. ADs have their use but they are already prescribed irresponsibly as it is. This will only grow a problem that...

Yes, this is critical. The "validation" that sick people need is not for ourselves, it's for everyone else. Modern societies have a social contract in which we defer all medical expertise to a single profession. Included in this contract is the determination of who is sick and who isn't. When...

But the underlying problem isn't of mental illness but of fobbing off sick people as not being a medical problem, with the assumption of some form of madness or hysteria. The end result remains the same: no medical care, no support, no accommodations, no disability and he is responsible for a...

And of note that this was mild inflammation. I really hope they can pursue this and use a gradation scale of severity and how it relates to performance. At some point there should be a significant drop in performance, especially in sustaining it past a certain point. Not sure if it's even...

Imaginary category invented to encompass specific characteristics was indeed found to describe things it set out to describe. Using this logic the old construct of natural materials (earth, fire, water, air) was also shown to contain those things because there are such things out there that can...

Autoimmune diseases.

Very symbolic that the precedent for this judgment is from nearly the exact same mistake and for identical reasons. It's grotesque that this is almost entirely the fault of medical professionals and institutions. The despair that leads to situations like this is almost entirely the product of...

I laughed when I first searched the definition and came up with "full of mirth". Thanks, chief. But yeah it's pretty redundant and repetitive.

I'll give it another day and re-submit tomorrow. Still pending. Weird how one of the comments is timestamped as 3 days ago yet only appeared today.