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It certainly seems to be a strange group they purport to study. They are strongly competitive but only in activities which they did not not previously enjoy, yet they adopt a perfectionist attitude to this competition. Why would they bother?

It would help if they could provide evidence... ...as to who it is that regards them as experts.

...and to specifically talk of post-accute infection syndrome without making it clear that this was originally described as a specific subset of CFS cases in which prior infection could be proved by laboratory test, but which might otherwise be indistinguishable. One sometimes wonders about the...

This seems to be a horrible logical, linguistic and causal tangle.

How can sharing data with "bona fide researchers "be permitted if no consent was provided for sharing with third parties? Anyone not a party to the original research is a third party.

Is it not the perpetuation of the symptoms which is characteric of ME?

Cutting edge stuff. As it has been for forty years. This was where Waddell came in. Some people who report being disabled by "low back problems" may rarely suffer pain because they are so successful at avoiding activities believed to cause it. In such cases pain is believed to indicate "harm"...

I was just musing on the idea that mind-body duality is probably a cultural issue, having been introduced into Christian theology by the neo-Platonist, Plotinus. That made me refer to Russell's History of Western Philosophy. He makes the interesting observation: Both Aristotle and the Platonic...

It might be unwise to look forward too much to sharing results.

Have you tried getting a GP to do an "active standing test"? Or even to acknowledge the results of one conducted at home? Or to agree a protocol whereby the results of a home conducted test might be deemed worthy of consideration?

It would be helpful if they were to descibe the physiosomatic symptoms which they are comparing. Perhaps they do in the full article. Do patients with schizophrenia really suffer from something comparable to PEM?

I particularly liked this from Adler's Linked in page ...I have also honed my approach - believing that everyone has the answer inside, sometimes it takes good questioning to uncover the answers and developing a good questioning technique has proved invaluable. In the summer of 2014 I joined...

Perhaps not necessarily. I recall that Wittgenstein posited the idea of "unconscious" toothache. I forget the details and would have to look them up. He suggested that this was possible and merely a novel and previously unrecognised use of the words. I doubt whether it would apply here.

Who knows...but it seems unlikely that all purported brains were fully integrated at the time of writing the book.

Isit possible to experience fear without being afraid? There seems to be far too much reification in these "studies".

Apparently Schaffner is a mBIT coach. That is multiple Brain Integration Technique if you did not know. I didn't.

I see that the book was published in 2017. We wouldn't wish long covid on either author or reviewer. Would we?

Didn't I just tell you that I will stay in my area of expertise? Well, actually, no you did not. What you said was that I prefer to stay in my area of expertise. Which is rather different. If he can be condescending, I can be pedantic.

I am surprised that they do not recommend as treatment a two week diving holiday in Grenada. There is about as much evidence for that as there is for anything else. Perhaps the insurance companies would pay.

Whenever I see this commonly repeated mantra, I wonder whether anyone has ever read the original research of Imboden (a psychotherapist) on which the dogma seems to be based There seemed to be multitude of flaws. For one paper they pruned the cohort from the original 600, including 60 women...