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    Maximal handgrip strength can predict maximal physical performance in patients with chronic fatigue, 2020, Jammes et al

    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/
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    Trial By Error: CBT and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    http://www.virology.ws/2020/01/24/trial-by-error-cbt-and-irritable-bowel-syndrome/
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    BABCP Spring Workshops and Conference KCL 16th to 17th April, 2020

    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...
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    Coronavirus - worldwide spread and control

    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.
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    The Hans Eysenck affair: Time to correct the scientific record (2019) David F Marks

    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/
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    A clinical study on the effectiveness of biopsychosocial-spiritual treatment approach for diabetic patients, 2020, Khalid and Naz

    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?
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    Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy the Gold Standard for Psychotherapy?

    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.
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    The Agenda - Trudie Chalder interview "You can't experience happiness if you don't feel sadness" Jan 2020

    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...
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    Functional Neurological Disorders - discussion thread

    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
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    Functional Neurological Disorders - discussion thread

    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...
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    Low-dose naltrexone as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2020, Bolton, Chapman, Van Marwijk

    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.
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    Reduced heart rate variability predicts fatigue severity in individuals with CFS/ME. Escorihuela et al. 2019

    Is this linked to the disease process, or could it be a consequence of being sedentary?
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    Hospital Records of Pain, Fatigue, or Circulatory Symptoms in Girls Exposed to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination.., 2020, Thomsen et al

    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...
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    Psychiatry Advisor: Addressing depression in ME/CFS, 2018, Cindy Lampner

    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...
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    Patients’ descriptions of relation between physical symptoms & negative emotions: a qualitative analysis of primary care consultations, 2019, Bekhuis

    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...
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    Psychiatry Advisor: Addressing depression in ME/CFS, 2018, Cindy Lampner

    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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