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    How to deal with Unexpected stresses

    :bucktooth::nailbiting::(:hug::asleep: Take care, we’re thinking of you.
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 14, 2018 in forum: Relationships and coping
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    Whether to have a flu vaccination

    I do think that those who can get a flu shot without major negative consequences and who are exposed to either a large number of people or...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 14, 2018 in forum: Home adaptations, mobility and personal care
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    Whether to have a flu vaccination

    This is just my personal 2018 anecdote: I got the flu vaccine this year (through a voluntary first responder organisation I am still a member...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 14, 2018 in forum: Home adaptations, mobility and personal care
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    How to deal with Unexpected stresses

    I do a lot of pretending to sleep in these circumstances. Finding the closest thing to a corner and huddling up as if I were exhausted and...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 13, 2018 in forum: Relationships and coping
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    Systematic review and statistical analysis of the integrity of 33 randomized controlled trials (2016)

    This is an article on the people who did the work to uncover the fraud (article by their own university). The actual study is published in...
    Thread by: Subtropical Island, Sep 12, 2018, 0 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
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    New Scientist: Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you

    I too have found from painful personal experience that fermented things cause me no end of trouble these days (never before illness). Not just...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 8, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    New Scientist: Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you

    My takeaway from this was that I wish I’d managed to collect and effectively store a sample of my own gut microbiology when I was adult and...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Sep 8, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    The Lancet: UK life science research: time to burst the biomedical bubble

    Thank you! :hug: This is just exactly the point. Worth embroidering on the wall, or something like that... maybe a billboard?
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 21, 2018 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  9. Subtropical Island
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    The "Biology-First" Hypothesis: Functional disorders may begin and end with biology-A scoping review (2018)

    Want to read/hear more (can see just a paragraph more than the abstract without a sub).
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 5, 2018 in forum: ME/CFS research
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    'I'm not looking for pity, just a cure' - NZ article

    LP: Isn’t it odd that paying a large amount of money for something makes people take it more seriously? For a therapy that only requires a group...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 5, 2018 in forum: General ME/CFS news
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    Aging affects the balance of neural entrainment and top-down neural modulation in the listening brain (2017) Molly J Henry

    Quotes from the article cited (for those who prefer a preview):
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 3, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Kelly McLellan seeks feedback on his draft Edinburgh ME Scale

    I found this scale useful. I went to say more useful detail but ... not this week. I wanted to post something as I appreciete the effort gone...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 2, 2018 in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
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    Psychiatry – the medical speciality that combines empathy and science

    I was going to say Decartes. A good example of when good ideas need to be reviewed from time to time and updated in line with newer understanding.
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jul 2, 2018 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
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    Aging affects the balance of neural entrainment and top-down neural modulation in the listening brain (2017) Molly J Henry

    https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15801 As this describes some (a minor but very frustrating part) of my experience: difficulty with auditory...
    Thread by: Subtropical Island, Jul 2, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
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    Psychiatry – the medical speciality that combines empathy and science

    Fun as all this psychiatry bashing may be, I do think it’s a subject that warrants further investigation and study. Unfortunately, like much of...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jun 24, 2018 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
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    Psychiatry – the medical speciality that combines empathy and science

    Combines empathy and science. Um, I thought that was _supposed_ to be your GP?
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jun 24, 2018 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
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    The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.

    Nice article, thanks @Indigophoton! I’m glad I’m on a day I could read the original. Pleased to think/imagine/hope that lack of replication in...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jun 15, 2018 in forum: Other health news and research
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    Personality as a risk factor for ME/CFS and similar diseases

    Funny, I’ve always thought of intelligence as being exactly that: enjoying the experience of being challenged, of learning, and of challenging and...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Jun 1, 2018 in forum: Possible causes and predisposing factor discussion
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    Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—A reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT

    Non-complaining sick people = higher rates of ‘cure’ that can be claimed. So, no, not useful for society, resources, govt funding, etc etc (those...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Feb 15, 2018 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    Spoon theory

    I tend to describe myself as mild/moderate but on your scale I’m mostly 2 with frequent dips to 1 and regular dips to 0. So my scale is finer...
    Post by: Subtropical Island, Feb 15, 2018 in forum: Monitoring and pacing
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