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APPGs don’t have any actual power to DO things @ringding they are a high influence lobby group made up of MPs so are are able to use official Parliamentary routes like debates, publish their own reports, request formal meetings with ministers/officials who actually do exert power, use the...

How does Alexithymia fit with excessive focussing on symptoms and catastrophising. Or is it a case of you’re psychologised if you don’t talk openly about your symptoms and psychologised if you do talk openly about them. Demonstration of the heads I win tails you lose mentality of this group.

I looked up on Dettol and Zoflora disinfectant websites although they haven’t yet been able to test against the new virus their products are also effective against similar viruses so there’s a good chance they will work. https://www.dettol.co.uk/about-us/understanding-coronavirus/

If loo paper runs short and you’re using the loo at home one option would be to wash with water and soap use the loo as an improvised bidet keep a plastic bottle by the loo you can fill with water to wash and rinse. You would then just need a small washable towel to dry with. ETA obviously...

I have had jet lag arrived back in London at 8am and couldn’t stay awake to adapt to local time had to go to bed at 12 noon. I was very sleepy, I didn’t have any body pain or flu like symptoms. Nothing like ME. I possibly had a headache when I woke up at 8pm and was a bit dehydrated.

The hour change in the UK is the last weekend in March

Problem solved as I’m not actually well enough today to go to the football anyway. Back to listening on local radio.

Thanks @Invisible Woman theres a meeting on Monday between the Football leagues and the government about what to do as it becomes more widespread. Possibly they will have games played in empty stadiums as is happening in Italy. So it might not be my decision after tomorrow. The next...

I’ve got tea tree wet wipes as they’re easy to carry round also they haven’t sold out. I’m going to a football match tomorrow do you think I’m daft?

BBc Article about a report by the all party parliamentary group on HIV highlighting mental health support needs of HIV patients. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51727221

This. I suggest anyone wanting to learn more about dementia and how those diseases affect the brain check out Alzheimer’s Research UK. https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/orange/

Yes something for GPs is what’s needed.

There’s a lot to be said for having someone who isn’t a friend or relative, boss or colleague to talk to about stuff that you’re finding hard, grief for example - all those people have their own agendas. I have been talking to a counsellor regularly every 4-8 weeks for over 10 years. My mental...

Apart from the issues around the CF article there’s a lot of translationese going on.

Not necessarily bad news if he’s serious enough about trying to help there’s nothing to stop him using his network to have informal discussions with his fellow members of the government - so possibly can be more influential from within than he would be as a backbencher. Keeping up contact with...

At some point they will stick their fingers in a pie too far - could HIV be the one? Let’s hope so.

Judge a man by the company he keeps...............

The answer to the question in the title - go and take a long hard look at yourself in a mirror.

Yes he’s like the class swot trying to outdo all the other arses

Having ME to me is a kaleidoscope of frustrations. Being annoyed about feeling lucky that I can do the things I manage to do. Being able to spend time with people but how crap that makes me feel afterwards. Being retired from work yet just organising my life to try to minimise PEM feels like a...