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Is this the case? Where is that data about that particular clinic? How much has Gladwell worked with Professor Crawley--anyone know?

Does pacing for people involve filling out all these activity diaries and so much planning in advance? That seems like a lot of cognitive work.

Here's page 3 of the CBT Patient manual introduction to the online program: "There are a number of clinical trials showing that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people with IBS manage their lifestyles and symptoms better, leads to a significant reduction in IBS symptoms and the...

Thanks so much!

I've actually just seen this, in relation to what's on the other thread about the person reviewing Action For ME's pacing manual is a co-author of this "double-blinded" study.

Can anyone find the CBT manuals for IBS on the IAPT website? Supposedly they're posted--at least the patient one--but I've been looking around and can't find it. I'm curious if it contains all sorts of messages about how CBT has been proven to be effective for IBS, like the PACE manuals do.

Of course, at 24 months there were no statistically significant differences between the web-based CBT group on the IBS severity scale. And the non-statistically significant difference was 12 points lower on the web-based group. A difference of 50 points on the scale is considered clinically...

Thanks for that and for all your work on this--it's pretty amazing. So a "secondary parenting" means placing an illness under another rubric as well as its primary one--ie under neurology as well as mental disorders chapter? So the idea is WHO rejected the use of "functional" because they...

What did Lady Gaga say recently?

must be a shock for the patient groups to see that they have conversion disorder after all.

This is the first sentence from the opening editorial of the special issue, which is not behind a paywall: https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19090204 "Functional neurological disorder (FND), also known as conversion disorder, constitutes individuals with...

well, I don't think we really know why they work. I doubt it's as simple as that they're "chemical crutches." I got on anti-depressants when I was 25, before the SSRIs came out. They tried me on about eight or nine before finding one that alleviated some of the suffering. If I only needed a...

And presumably he would still believe or at least claim that PACE is "a thing of beauty."

I understand why it was hard to understand. I can see why it would be confusing unless you understand what the IAPT program is doing. I could have explained more. The program started off in 2008 to embed psychological services more closely into health care delivery, so that it was easier for GPs...

Not to defend the investigators or anything, but I assume the CBT for depression in advanced cancer is different from the aberration of CBT addressing unhelpful illness beliefs that is used for "CFS" or what others would call "ME." I don't think the presumption is that the depression is an...

Hi, I don't quite get the confusion. IAPT says it's effective for treating people with depression/anxiety as co-morbidities to long-term conditions, including advanced cancer, and MUS, as in chronic fatigue syndrome. In this study at least, IAPT has been shown to not be effective in improving...

Ha, this drove me nuts when I was there. Patients, clinicians, researchers--everyone called it "chronic fatigue." "Syndrome" was almost never used, ME was almost never used, ME/CFS pretty rarely.

In other words, you're saying that the fact of there being 100 possible models is what suggests none of them are on target because the volume of ideas would indicate they're all shots in the dark?

He takes an absolutist position that only those diagnosed through criteria he approves of can use the term ME.

where did he make this point?