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Ah, you are correct. Sorry, folks. :oops: [Fixed it.]

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Yes, I don't think 'depression' is particularly well defined and handled either. Nor most other 'mental' conditions.

which is thus anticipated to reduce pressure and financial demands on healthcare systems. They said the quiet part out loud.

Much prefer if they could put the effort into developing an actual understanding of these conditions, not on how to better sell their current bullshit non-understanding. :grumpy:

But not physical health conditions? Causation doesn't run the other way? Furthermore, even if there is causation in the mind–>body direction, I don't think it can be taken for granted that the degree of causation is the same in both directions. The mind may well be able to override the body...

My payday this Thursday.

Interesting difference and possible clue, if it holds up.

Good article, apart from the emphasis on fatigue. "The main symptom of ME-CFS is debilitating fatigue..."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00127-8/fulltext The PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group Clinical characteristics with inflammation profiling of long COVID and association with 1-year recovery following hospitalisation in the UK: a prospective observational study...

It's the generic Goldilocks explanation and solution. Not too little, not too much, just the 'right' amount. And, of course, you need an expert to guide you along this difficult journey.

How to lie better to your foolish hysterical patient.

The modern diagnosis of functional neurological disorders (FND) describes a diverse set of neurological symptoms without identifiable pathology. So why the flood of recent papers from the FND mob claiming to identify underlying physiological pathology, or at least biomarkers? *crickets*

A good as explanation as any offered by the psychoanalysts.

This.

Yep. It is inconsistent nonsense, that places patients in a very nasty double-bind.

The intervention groups reported no major harms... because the researchers didn't measure them.

Grifters gonna grift.

I have never been happy with the fatigue word.

When evidence and reason become infinitely flexible, and up can be argued as down without being howled down with derisive laughter, then something is seriously broken.