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It's the same with HIV-related fatigue. The concept depends on the worry being excessive and/or unwarranted. Just because it is not linked to a specific pathophysiology does not give them the authority to decide that concern about it is excessive or unwarranted.

I'm supposed to fly to London on Sunday afternoon to go to the CMRC gathering on Tues/Wed. I change my mind every 15 minutes about whether I should or should not board the flight. University of California has asked us to restrict "non-essential" travel to the most hard-hit countries, a list that...

well, in that or another presentation, CFS was described as comparable to suffering from really bad jet lag--like, really bad.

I'm confused by this. What kind of gathering, and was there some thought they were exposed to coronavirus at the gathering? Who told them to isolate themselves or did they decide on their own?

Thanks, I'll take a look.

exactly. I face this constantly.

Emergency rooms are required to take everyone, so unfortunately in the US those without health insurance often use that as their primary care. Now something like this could cause even more over-crowding in emergency rooms than usual.

A question: Are people with ME particularly worried about coronavirus along with other groups who might have compromised immune systems? Are folks taking any particular precautions? Just curious.

In college there was a doctor at the health services named Dr Rectanus. At least he was a GP, not a proctologist.

The authors seem to reference their own prior theoretical papers to bolster their arguments. The whole thing is based on the premise that people with so-called PPS do not have any organic problems that could be causing their symptoms.

Yes, I agree that is squishy. But that is essentially what all psychotherapists do, in whatever modality they're working in. Since I've benefited--or believe I've benefited, or experience myself as if I've benefited--from psychotherapy, I can't come down hard on all such approaches. But it...

He's an outside reviewer--not a Guardian employee. So his opinion doesn't really represent the Guardian. But good that they picked someone who would make decent points.

I agree that he finds IAPT threatens longer-term psychotherapeutic relationships, and he is identified as a Jungian. Are the "scam" and "born-again Jungian into all sorts of magic" observations something you got from the text, or just what you think of Jungians and the purported benefits of...

and because undoubtedly very, very powerful people were yelling behind the scenes.

I'll be there. I was looking forward to meeting her. Too bad.

The CDC has always refused to criticize PACE. Since it is the lead public health agency in the US, its refusal to criticize a study it recommended for years is a disgrace--an abandonment of core principles of public health. I have slammed them over this failure repeatedly.

wait, what did Hawking think the moon was made of anyway?

Well, they agree with Michiel that the number is inflated and they should have indicated it was a number for CF and not CFS, and they also agree that the fatigue could be because of having had a baby or house renovations. Then there's more yaba-yaba and then they say they will consider more...

it was the seminal paper--the "bible" of the CBT/GET ideological brigades

out of 140+ identified as having missed too much school for unexplained reasons, she diagnosed 20+ as having the illness. That's from memory--I haven't double-checked.