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Pretty good article overall. :thumbup: Does this model specifically require a viral trigger? Anger is what you get when sick, vulnerable, innocent people are persistently mistreated this way, then blamed when that approach inevitably goes wrong, and finally told they should be grateful to...

...and a powerful call for action to fix the broken story. Not fix the broken medical system?

Yeah, I'm sure they do. Excuse me if I suspect that this is a PR exercise so they can say we did consult with these stakeholders.

Wessely is very good at talking the talk, but never delivers on the substance.

Might be worth archiving important documents on archive.today too. They don't delete anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today And of course, keeping copies on your own computer. Basic text, plus a few images, doesn't take up much space.

FND involves a disruption in normal brain mechanisms for controlling the body. I wish I could be that certain about anything. overt inconsistency, as typically observed in patients with FND Not sure why inconsistency is so definitive a symptom. Normal human lives are full of inconsistency...

Exactly. If you cannot predict responders then you don't have a robust understanding, and we all know where that leads. ---------- https://www.s4me.info/attachments/fine-there-is-no-disease-jpg.14799/ That is beyond disgraceful. It's literally 100% wrong, and in the worst possible way. Also...

Worth repeating.

Yeah, that was a hard road for me too.

Who needs variation in cognitive styles? Any statistical deviance is deviant, apparently.

hopium :laugh:

Indeed. On balance I think it better to publish it. But nervous about doing that too. :confused:

Would help your case if you could actually establish that this is what is actually going on, and you can actually safely and effectively treat it, instead of just assuming and asserting it.

Don't know if we are more at risk of getting COVID or having worse outcomes. But common sense precaution would suggest that, at the least, we can't afford to lose any more function than we already have. So taking extra preventative steps seems wise.

Yes, he might be rather busy saving his empire right now.

Wiborg (2010) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20047707/ 1. Summary: CBT does not increase physical activity in CFS patients, as measured by actigraphy. In particular, the self-report fatigue and actigraphy results did not correlate, so there is simply no possibility of CBT having a causal...

Bring. It. On.

The urge to get involved and have a life has never gone away. I don't need motivating. :mad:

Furthermore, none of the methods and measures favoured by the BPS school discriminate between changes in perception and changes in reporting, because they are not the same and have different implications.

:banghead: :mad: We still have a long way to go. :grumpy: