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Expert Q&A: When Medical Symptoms Are Dismissed as "All in Your Head" The book reviews how ME/CFS (myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome), fibromyalgia, many autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, and other chronic illnesses are all part of the group you refer to as “the...

Trial By Error: The Open Letter to Netflix about Afflicted Blog post contains a short intro and the letter itself. David Tuller has added his name to the list of signatories.

Here is a trailer for the second film made for this project. The theme is how you can develop an educational plan. It is in Norwegian, but here's what's being said: After I got diagnosed with ME, everything seemed hopeless. My parents were frustrated over the situation at school, and the...

Oh, he does say "chronic fatigue" not "chronic fatigue syndrome", and towards the end he talks about exercise.. :(

Concept: Anil van der Zee Questions by: Roland Cheung, Celine Corsius, Lou Corsius, Mark Vink and Anil van der Zee Interviewer: Rogier Louwen Video, audio and editing: Willem Timmers

New post today from David F. Marks. The PACE Trial: A Catalogue of Errors Rarely in the history of clinical medicine have doctors and patients been placed to bitterly at loggerheads. The dispute had been a long time coming. ETA:

They are really mobilising in Scandinavia, aren't they? Did you see this in the Journal for the Swedish Medical Association? At least the author is honest on what this really is about.. Funktionella somatiska symtom kräver biopsykosocial kompetens google translation: Functional somatic...

In spite of the lack of empirical support, the Psychological Theory of ME/CFS lives on. ME/CFS patients are subjected to CBT and GET. Patients and patient organisations protest about the treatments and are opposed to the Psychological Theory. Perhaps Psychologists needs to turn the...

From the presentation of the speakers: Per Fink, MD, PhD, Dr.Med.Sc. Director, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics Professor, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Prof. Per Fink heads The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark...

From the program: Bodily Distress Syndrome or Functional Somatic Syndromes: How to diagnose and treat Per Fink, MD, Dr.Med.Sc., PhD Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark How to Treat Functional Disorders in Primary Care and General Medical Hospitals: A brief introduction to a training program...

I can see you posts now, and we are not Facebook friends.

Charles Shepherd has given this statement as a comment to MEA's Facebook post. I am surprised he doesn't seem to understand why posts like this are upsetting. Comment from Dr Charles Shepherd: As we have stated on MEA Facebook on numerous occasions we normally publish information from...

A thread about the article has been made, so deleted my post and moved it there. Very frustrating if this BS-method is allowed to emerge again in UK. I thought UK had managed to leave it more or less behind. Anyway, for discussions about the article...

This is not acceptable. This is not just harmless stuff for patients! ETA:

#MEAction: Sign Norway's petition: Demand Resignation of Advisory Board Promoting Biopsychosocial Model The petition is addressed to the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services and below is an English translation – for our international supporters. Everyone is encouraged to sign the...

More background information for this petition in the recent THE ME GLOBAL CHRONICLE p. 83-85 It is written by the initiator to the petition, Nina E. Steinkopf. https://let-me.be/download.php?view.47 The petition has 3296 signatures by now.