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Yep, under the chart for (b): The squares represent the effect size (variation in the DASS-42 value) and the whiskers represent its 95% CI limits . I initially looked this up as I wondered whether it was some sort of ave + standard deviation in which case median vs mean etc would have been...

Hmm all very sinister. Working out how can this become something simple and relevant enough it can be discussed more 'front page' - I've heard mutterings elsewhere about FOIs and the issue of people getting recategorised with other things almost as if to get around the guideline change. This...

Love this. It's like claiming that if you use the right dodgy measure you can claim that feeding someone with a broken leg a bar of chocolate improves their condition and noone bats an eyelid as you wonder if you are on candid camera.

Yes, you need to think outside of 'NHS psychologists' which makes people think psychology is about clinical psychology - whereas it is a little part of the bigger subject (one module of a whole 3yr degree) which tends to focus on things like methodology and how you unpick which bits of the brain...

Yes, potentially (re the tests in relation to PEM). It would be 'A' I guess by how you've listed it. No to the rest BUT ie the one definite area of psychology we don't mean is clinical (so I wouldn't word it that way, because I come at it from a different angle and see clinical as a 'little...

Yep, going by 2 cases I knew in friends of friends around 3yrs ago (pre-covid) GPs in my area must have a pathway that still treats ulcers as psychosomatic - stress chat and come back in 2 weeks first. The 'pathway' was slow enough for both (who ironically didn't know each other and wouldn't...

It's almost exactly the type of thinking/areas that we want to be considering. Psychology is a science once you take out clinical and social. Things like eye movement tracking (when driving) would be cognitive with some perception and potentially neuropsychology or one of the more specific under...

Agreed. Looks like they didn't even 'walk through' their own questions and tasks for sense and doability ('historical precedent' fallacy I assume). What normal person without cognitive issues and PEM whilst answering and new variability due to PEM can rate how many 'energy units' brushing their...

I like the bit about "you can probably tell that I'm a pusher". This reminder to people to be self-aware is so important. Surprising as it is there are many I've come across, particularly physios, where it has become such second nature they do not realise and it takes them huge restraint to not...

Very much agree with this.

If it is that then I've been told (not by doctor but by friend of friend who works in that area) that it is something that is common in athletes and musicians - for obvious reasons. Thinking of it that way makes complete sense re: ME and those who are basically in anaerobic stage to do anything...

Interesting that his statement makes a point that interim 'isn't like being a locum' and that he intends to 'continue progress...' vs the presidents' statement about him taking the reigns whilst they use the year to do an 'international search' for someone. I'm guessing that for some reason...

I can't even be sure by that whether he means people with E are apparently 'overbreathing/pushing out too much CO2 (apparently it causes alkaline blood)' or the opposite?

Agree with this. Worth doing one appt anyway at least when you are first in to check they've got all your repeat prescription meds and flags/dropdowns that you might need sorted/signed off. So you can perhaps suss someone out then without really needing to mention/dwell on the ME bit. I've...

the link no longer works and I can't find him on google but find this 2 word description fascinating simply on the basis of knowing a bit about what is involved in proprioception (did a module in it, lots about how there is both forward processing and backward processing etc so geekily found it...

Agree. Same here. The arms are the most obvious, you just get so used to adjusting how you do things when you are less severe that you don't think to talk about it e.g. never been able to use hair straighteners even when they were what everyone did, or long blow-dry type things where arms would...

Sorry Joseph - just re-read it and hope that didn't come across wrong. I was trying to say I agree with you, but also struggling with the 'keeping track of all the rubiks cube bits'. Still not sure I've got there (!?) Anyway, the use of names was to help me try and organise/remember my thoughts...

And that is the common ground we are all speaking on. Who is this ever likely to be? ME/CFS clinics in the main don't even have doctors, just allied staff train predominantly in 'managing CFS' and not enabled to look for or suggest alternates such as these. GPs have for many years just been...

I 100% agree with your comment. There was another thread somewhere where I noted that the issue is when people talk about 'ME/CFS' we don't even know which 'cohort/context' we are using. As an approx of what I mean by that (and it isn't about definitions): Those who have ME/CFS as per...

Fascinating, don't apologise I don't think you could have got it across any shorter from my perspective and it is important stuff/insight