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Not a recommendation. Title : Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health. They’re surprising. Subtitle : Immune responses to viruses like SARS-CoV-2 may affect mental health, and vice versa. Doctors are uncovering exactly how. Link ...

From the above link - my bolding : I was convinced that I had the right to ask for a second opinion, so it's useful - but disturbing - to know that I don't have such a right.

Not a single reference for any of this nonsense.

My bolding... My mother had rheumatoid arthritis. By the end of her life her hands and some other joints were distorted, knobbly, partially wasted, as is so often the case with rheumatoid arthritis. The fact that the inflammation wasn't obvious at the start doesn't mean she didn't have...

I'm stating the obvious here, and am probably reiterating what Ash has said above.... If ME charities and patients use the battlefields picked by the BPS crew they aren't going to get very far. If a BPS therapist or doctor says they have evidence that GET works - and they know this because of...

The first thing that crossed my mind when I read the title was this : Vibration white finger Nothing would induce me to risk this condition - it is disabling and excruciating.

What does a psychologist (author 2) know about primary immune deficiency and how it is investigated? Why was he/she involved?

Has medicine officially given up treating patients? It would certainly seem so. Doctors are going back to the 1880s in pretending to treat patients, particularly women and children.

@Ash 100 likes for post #5. :thumbup: :)

That's because patients quickly realise that functional disorders are considered to be mental health problems and no treatment will be forthcoming (apart from anti-depressants or CBT).

ACT always sounds to me like "suck it up and go away" therapy.

Something happened on the Tour De France yesterday - a woman ended up being fined 1200 euros for interfering with the race...

Winding back the advances of the 20th century to save money on healthcare, shorten life, save money on pensions, kill off the elderly (or just make them wish they were dead?)

Thank you, @Binkie4 . I'm well past the worst now, although I still have the really annoying dry cough, and even that no longer hurts. :thumbup:

I'm currently recovering from Covid. I had a positive Lateral Flow test done at home first, then I had a PCR test done that was sent off for testing. I have official emails from the NHS saying that I got a positive PCR result. If I ever need to prove I had Covid I wonder how they will wriggle...

How can health-care workers not know about Long Covid? It just baffles me, and I simply don't understand it.

I remember trying peppermint about 40 years ago. I can't remember what form it was in. It irritated my innards dreadfully.

The episodes being described that affect your partner, @yME , sound an awful lot worse than anything I have ever gone through. But it is disappointing that she needed a doctor to diagnose it. I was hoping to do a self-diagnosis, but I'm not clear if I can do that. Just for info, please note...

I have never really understood what atrial fibrillation is. 1) Can people feel it when they have it? 2) What are the symptoms? 3) Can it only be diagnosed by a medical professional with an ECG machine? I have some very brief (less than 5 seconds usually) and occasional episodes of...

From Post #23 Counsellor Jeremy This sounds a bit weird without a surname. Is he shy or trying to hide or trying to avoid taking responsibility for any decisions that might be made?