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As best I can recall without checking, Wessely did not sign the actual sectioning papers for Ean, but he did submit an expert witness statement to the court supporting it. So he has some responsibility for the outcome.

This is pretty good. Written by Hayley Gleeson. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/children-with-long-covid-dismissed-doctors-myth-virus-harmless/103959078

This is the core message at this point in time, and likely to remain so for some time to come.

What is required is that they are reasonably accurate at recording changes and trends for the individual. It is the variations that seem most important here, though the absolute values do matter as well.

Yes, fine words. But we have heard it all before. So let's wait and see how well those promises translate into meaningful productive actions and results.

@MelbME Nothing to add to the conversation, others have covered it. Just wanted to say a big thanks for engaging here and listening. We don't expect or want to be in charge of research decisions, to be given veto or anything like that. That is what the pros get paid to do. But we do...

Never existed. Was always nothing more than a sop for public relations purposes. Caused some offence?!? Standard non-apology. It is a lot worse than mere "some offence".

Sounds to me like what they are really saying is that it is everybody else who is inconvenienced and embarrassed by these seizures. So patients should have the decency to do it alone, on their own time.

Interesting how Garner and Carson can deliver robust critiques of biologically based studies, but seem blind to the serious flaws in their own studies and claims.

:( All the best to your dad and family, Snowy.

I have learned the hard way over the decades that every time I think I might be going a little too hard on the ME-is-psychosomatic crowd they soon prove me completely wrong. They really are that bad. They really are a virulent cult. It is now beyond any possible dispute that the medical...

Doctors have to say we don't know, we got nothing. Equally patients have to hear and accept it. And not just patients, but also their families, friends, our political overlords, etc.

The finding that avoidance behaviour mediated change in several outcomes supported our theoretical fear-avoidance model on which DS-CBT was partly based It does no such thing. That avoidance behaviour may well be justified. Is staying away from the edge of a cliff a pathological avoidance...

That is stark indeed, especially the final chart that clearly shows that, if anything, patients were playing a better strategy than the healthy controls. Which hardly supports the patients are misinterpreting/incompetent/imagining/delusional/whatever view. It is also dangerously close to...

Yep. Every time I have tried to explain PEM to somebody in the health system their eyes glaze over, and it is abundantly clear they don't even start to get it, and most don't want to, and attempting to push the issue is only going to further impair our already fraught working relationship. So I...

I was at uni during the time when post-modernism was the Latest Big Thing. It was a disturbing lesson in how gullible and faddish the intellectual elites can be. - There is no such thing as objective truth. - Is that an objective truth? - *crickets*

I believe the correct term is 'bang stick'.

Free-text analysis revealed stress and trauma as the most common causal attributions, Was that before or after they had those casual attributions suggested to them? There were no significant changes in stigma, distress, sense of control or anticipated discrimination. So, a null result, then?

"An etude is a short, tricky tune that a musician plays mainly for practice or to demonstrate skill."

A particularly nasty and gutless form of bigotry, that is getting very close to hate crimes at times. Sometimes even crossing that line, IMO.