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As a reminder, there was this study on handgrip in 2018 by Nacul et al.: Hand grip strength as a clinical biomarker for ME/CFS and disease severity https://www.s4me.info/threads/hand-grip-strength-as-a-clinical-biomarker-for-me-cfs-2018-nacul-et-al.6612/

http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/24/trial-by-error-cbt-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/

I have never had problems with uncertainty, not before nor since becoming ill. Quite the contrary, I've always hated false certitudes, I was the kind of person who likes to consider something from different angles. So I have no lesson on uncertainty to receive from someone who sticks to...

it's the fatality rate of contaminated people. I guess if the epidemy were to spread and the mortality rate stayed stable, as not everybody would be contaminated, the death toll would be less severe.

Journal retracts 30-year-old paper by controversial psychologist Hans Eysenck I am longing to see this for another trial... https://retractionwatch.com/2020/01/21/journal-retracts-30-year-old-paper-by-controversial-psychologist-hans-eysenck/

So a study on a single patient, having diabetes + "sadness" (depression?) whose outcomes are evaluated on a depression scale, becomes (in the title) a study on diabetes. Seriously?

That's the problem, nobody knows exactly what depression is (and it may encompass very different things), but too many people do not, like you, acknowledge this and have strong claims about what they believe depression is.

Yes, their explanations are a simplification of a complex combination of factors interacting to create depression. This article about a woman whose particular genetics prevents her from feeling sadness and pain is an interesting counterpoint, I think...

See this post by @Woolie where she gives some references. https://www.s4me.info/threads/freud-was-a-fraud-a-triumph-of-pseudoscience.1569/#post-26559

A few things about FNDs It seems there are indeed patients with no diagnosis that present with commonalities: - seizures of a different type than epilepsy - tremors where distracting the patient can make the symptoms diminish - gait disorders where people can't walk, but are able to run. My...

Yes, I know. I meant in ME/CFS :)

Yes, I agree, but we've heard of LDN for a long time and we shouldn't be there now. We should see published trials by now.

Case report...

Is this linked to the disease process, or could it be a consequence of being sedentary?

Of course it happened to people, but at the same rate as people who had not been just vaccinated. There are a lot of things correlated to things happening to people, and we tend to see a process of causation, it's natural. But only an epidemiology study can indicate if the rate of these things...

Not, it does not ask about your physical ability, and that's a problem. Because someone prevented to do a thing by pain for example could answer positively while not experiencing anhedonia at all. To be more acurate, a question supposed to detect anhedonia should be centered about these...

Trust is important in the doctor/patients relationship. So be open to what patients feel and ask them what's the link between their symptoms and their emotions. (Of course, this trust relashionship stops instantly if patients say there's no link. Then, deny their reality and start to convert...

I think everyone here perfectly understands what anhedonia is, the problem is that this question is not properly worded to differentiate between anhedonia and inability/difficulty to perform an enjoyed task because of physical constraints. And you often answer questionaires without someone...

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