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A very unfortunate interview for the rest of us with this illness.

I suspect that the nanoneedle won't be specific to ME/CFS but if this test is validated and shows a clear-cut difference between sick and healthy people that would be amazing. Our first priority is to get authorities to have to admit there's a real problem and to stop sectioning people.

There is very strong evidence that mental illness as defined by psychiatry is real (i.e. caused by organic brain fail) and no evidence at all that it's a social construct. It is possible to induce and/or reproduce symptoms of various well-defined psychiatric syndromes using drugs and other...

I am sorry to hear about your friend's akathisia, a truly horrible and common side effect. I completely agree that the current medical establishment is unaccountable and doctors are permitted to basically terrorise patients. But there is genuine mental illness and there are many instances where...

What about the patients whose agency has been diminished or withdrawn by psychiatric illness? How is the system going to help somebody without "systematic use of force" who is in a psychotic state? Or manic? Or has delirium? Dementia? I am not talking about misdiagnoses and abuses/excesses of...

There's nothing worse than mentally ill people writing long essays to convince themselves and other mentally ill people that mental illness isn't real and they can all stop taking their meds.

The mere notion that CBT could or should be used in a disorder as serious and impervious to rational argumentation as psychosis is pretty disturbing IMO and what is even more disturbing is that ethics committees nowadays are permitting this sort of "research". Funny how so many psych trials are...

Ranitidine did nothing for me but cimetidine (another H2 antagonist) had a noticeable positive effect. I know two other people with CFS who benefitted from cimetidine. Unfortunately, the effects wear off over time.

Unsurprising.

I'm surprised to see water aerobics recommended for ME/CFS. Personally, no activity makes me weaker and more orthostatically challenged than being in a bath, jacuzzi or swimming pool, presumably due to vasodilation and thus severe worsening of orthostatic intolerance, a very common and disabling...

Mine were low end of normal range, just under 300. GP of course dismissed it as “normal” but I was alarmed given how many symptoms of B12 deficiency I had so I began supplementing immediately.