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    Professor Akiko Iwasaki and the Yale School of Medicine research on Long Covid and post infection syndromes

    I am so glad this project has funding. Bring on the treatments. But still there will always be sick people, as long as there are people. I find it so unacceptably tragic that any sick person should be made to take on the view that they individually are the “burden” while there exists a whole...
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    Anecdotes about psychosomatic treatments that allegedly cure patients

    My god that is so sad. But I would say it was inattentive care that killed this disabled father from the care home and the daughter. Rather than her unusual beliefs.
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    Anecdotes about psychosomatic treatments that allegedly cure patients

    I’d say our culture, I’m in the UK but this applies to all the colonial nations, based upon strict hierarchies, resource hoarding, environmental damage, labour exploitation, have and had a system in place to make sure that people displaced, dispossessed and ruthlessly exploited, don’t complain...
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    Are Sexual Assaults Related to Functional Somatic Disorders? A Cross-Sectional Study 2023 Jacobsen et al

    Also it’s often a condition of receiving support, demonstrate buy in to our framework or be considered “not yet ready for healing”. It can be very difficult for people to get decent support. BPS ideology is a slight tweak on victim blaming going back centuries, so your community will also be...
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    Who is Simon Wessely?

    Oh my… Well it’s no wonder we’re in trouble is it? Sort of fills in some gaps in my understanding on why Drs so readily throw one another in front of the first on coming bus for the sin of getting sick. It probably comes from working in such a dysfunctional industry. Makes one mean.
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    Are Sexual Assaults Related to Functional Somatic Disorders? A Cross-Sectional Study 2023 Jacobsen et al

    Yeah. I think it’s still very common. According to statistics in UK rates were getting higher and higher over time. One hopeful explanation for this is that people are less ashamed and more confident about reporting. That’s considered certain to account for some of the rise. But less hopefully...
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    Crowdfunded awareness campaigns including billboards

    Glad you think it might catch your interest too. Fingers crossed a few more healthcare professionals in biomedical field will agree.
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    Feeling insecure about romantic relationships

    Exciting news @Hoopoe! Rest up now I guess X
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    Who is Simon Wessely?

    Yeah, I thought that. Maybe is the rudest ‘professional’ to professional letter I’ve ever read.
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    Are Sexual Assaults Related to Functional Somatic Disorders? A Cross-Sectional Study 2023 Jacobsen et al

    Yes @Arvo, sums it up. And @Hoopoe, could be? Disabled people are more likely to be victims of violence including sexual assault. A fact that is often spun around, to come out in the form of a perverse ‘expert’ opinion that you’re disabled because you didn’t toughen up and get over being...
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    Crowdfunded awareness campaigns including billboards

    I like it. I like the design and I like the wording. Strong. Assuming if you look up the website mentioned on the bottom there will be more concrete asks for people, who they can contact to help push for the funding for clinical trials etc I would hope for a landing page with instructions for...
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    Effectiveness of psychosomatic therapy for patients with persistent somatic symptoms: Results from the CORPUS... 2023 Wortman et al

    Thanks! In that case do you think it’s more a case that they got at least reasonable (although as you say we don’t know what proportion) numbers of subjects who were super invested in this ideology and even then the study fell short of the positive results that this ideology had primed both...
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    Bipolar disorder and ME/CFS

    That’s an interesting question @Woozy. I don’t know if ME causes those symptoms or not. If it does it would be a less common symptom pattern. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t cause these symptoms, or couldn’t cause them. Everybody is different and has different responses and susceptibility and...
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    Effectiveness of psychosomatic therapy for patients with persistent somatic symptoms: Results from the CORPUS... 2023 Wortman et al

    I favour this explanation. Though I haven’t read this study so perhaps it wasn’t the case there. I can imagine patients talking and thinking about their illnesses a bit differently to how we generally do in my country. But still I cant imagine the researchers being fully honest with their...
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    Crowdfunded awareness campaigns including billboards

    Yes, absolutely. I realise I sounded like I didn’t like this particular awareness campaign. Apologies I didn’t explain myself well. It’s not the case, I love the visual splash. I have a background fear and distrust of ‘awareness raising’ in general without it being based on specific demands...
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    Crowdfunded awareness campaigns including billboards

    They are but mostly just for perfume advertising at Christmas.
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