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  1. Sean

    The Amplification of Symptoms in the Medically Ill, 2022, Barsky and Silbersweig

    The brazen power grab continues unabated. See Barsky And Borus, 1999. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10375340/
  2. Sean

    School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial?, 2022, Montero-Marin et al

    'worry' And that is how you spin normal, healthy, ongoing and necessary integration of the past, present, and future, into simplistic pathology. The past matters, the present matters, the future matters, concurrently, all the time.
  3. Sean

    Covid-19 vaccination experiences

    Booked in for my 2nd booster (4th shot overall) at the end of the month at a local pharmacy. That will make it 7 months since my 1st booster. An encouraging comment from the guy taking the booking was that they had been flooded with bookings from the moment they started taking them on Monday...
  4. Sean

    The Extended Reattribution and Management Model - for treating somatisation - Fink et al, 2004 - Functional disorders, CFS

    What is really being described in this document is what happens when medicine fucks it up big time, and how they avoid accountability by blaming the patient for it.
  5. Sean

    The Extended Reattribution and Management Model - for treating somatisation - Fink et al, 2004 - Functional disorders, CFS

    Yeah, that's what we need. Magic words and sentences. Because there is no such thing as incomplete understanding or insufficient techniques in biomedical medicine. Maybe because GPs are not the final word on accurate diagnosis of poorly understood conditions? You're in denial. No, I'm not...
  6. Sean

    UK NICE 2021 ME/CFS Guideline, published 29th October - post-publication discussion

    Had a quick scan of the Scottish guidelines and they look good. :thumbup:
  7. Sean

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    From Australia:
  8. Sean

    Fear conditioning as a pathogenic mechanism in the postural tachycardia syndrome, Norcliffe-Kaufmann et al, 2022

    The messages from medicine on cardiac symptoms are completely contradictory. It is worse than even that. What they are really trying to say is that patients must do their own diagnosis. We are supposed to know if it is the 'right' kind of chest pain before we go to a clinic. If we get it wrong...
  9. Sean

    Australia: News from Emerge Australia

    Not the best audio, but good enough. Otherwise a good talk. Broadly speaking they know their stuff, and have clearly listened to patients. :thumbup:
  10. Sean

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    Another Australian media article on LC. Does include some predictable BPS/functional stuff from Prof Lloyd, but also other views, including a mention of ME/CFS. Behind a paywall, but here are some excerpts:
  11. Sean

    The evidence for CBT in any condition, population or context... A meta-review... and panoramic meta-analysis, 2021, Fordham et al.

    has developed a computerised CBT programme (Think, Feel, Do), an app for adolescents who self-harm (BlueIce), BlueIce™
  12. Sean

    Long Covid in the media and social media 2022

    Good thing that nobody is advocating that approach.
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