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Argg. Why did you dig that awful piece that I had forgotten? I'm going to shut my mouth because this pompous morron with his condescending pseudo empathetic tone makes me sick. Go solve your own existential problems and leave us alone Vincent...

@oldtimer and @Woolie Can't say how much I agree! The more I read about CBT, the more appalled I am by the whole concept. On the theoretical side, I have seen nothing convincing proving that thoughts and behaviors are causing psychiatric problems. On a more ethical side, none of the papers I've...

Yes, it's in the patients' survey thread.

Another attendee's point of view

Another attendee's point of view

Article in Vogue: This New Documentary on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a Must-See—and Not for the Reason You Think by Je Banach

Charles Shepherd's (ME Association) summary: http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/01/reviewing-the-nice-guideline-for-me-cfs-the-stakeholders-engagement-workshop-a-report-by-dr-charles-shepherd-17-january-2017/

Charles Shepherd's (ME Association) summary: http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/01/reviewing-the-nice-guideline-for-me-cfs-the-stakeholders-engagement-workshop-a-report-by-dr-charles-shepherd-17-january-2017/

Very promising things to come! (Links between PACE trialists and insurance companies, he met one person who was on the PACE trial, two people who were in the Royal Free Hospital outbreak...)

There are "patients' stories" on Per Fink's functional clinic website. The site doesn't seem to work properly for me, but here's the link in case it's temporary or due to my computer: http://funktionellelidelser.dk/en/patients%26families/patient-stories/ At least one of these stories had struck...

Well, it seems that some of his buddies did, but the results are not really sexy, so why using them? Link to the study: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12913-017-2437-3?site=bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com

Most of the sociology texts talking about ME I've read so far were blindly accepting the "no biological factor there" paradigm, hence patients are trying to fabricate a disease for psychosocial reasons. They're supposed to uncover the social factors of everything but they do not question at any...

Pathologize normality. Offer your useless therapies that do not work. Then make people feel guilty because they don't get better. Build up a nice career on this pile of shite. :sick::sick::sick:

https://jaxmecfs.com/2018/01/12/january-2018-spotlight-interview-with-derya-unutmaz/ Edit: this interview is on the Jackson laboratory MECFS blog. The interviewer, Courtney Gunter, is their program manager. (They link to S4ME in their resources page!)

Apparently #UnrestPBS is trending!

Happening right now, twitter chat with Jen Brea and Michael VanElzakker

Why are these people allowed to be working in schools? How could someone sane consider that to be educational in any way?