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Psychological flexibility and global health in young adults with and without a self-reported functional somatic syndrome: a preliminary investigation Has any patient who knows what it really means ever said to a doctor "I have a self-reported functional somatic syndrome"? It would be like a...

It seems silly to re-use an acronym when the original has been torn to shreds in so many places.

Now published, see post #6. Preprint, not peer reviewed : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4332223 Autoantibodies to Selenoprotein P in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome suggest Selenium Transport Impairment and Acquired Resistance to Thyroid Hormone Qian Sun1,2,†...

The first time I tried to access it I was asked to subscribe. The second time I tried to access it it partially showed up. I did have to click on "Read full article".

I have a non-24 hour sleep cycle. I hate going to bed when I'm not tired. I got sent to bed by my parents when I wasn't tired for about 10 years, from the age of about 8 - 18. Imagine being 16 / 17 / 18 and still being sent to bed at 9pm! I wasn't allowed to have a light on, and nor was I...

I have never seen the flags or how they are recorded. I'm just saying that it takes no more than a second from looking me up on a computer, to then being scowled at. So there must be a warning that pops up as soon as my record is accessed in a surgery or hospital and I've had the same experience...

I think most people just guess based on the level of rudeness/dismissal/rolling eyes they get. I can't remember the number of times I've given my identifying details to a receptionist or nurse in a GP surgery or a hospital, they've looked me up on their computer, and then they look up at me and...

I could come up with a few suggestions as to why this is. 1) In England (I'm not familiar with events in other parts of the UK) I think an alarming number of surgeries have sprung up as for-profit private businesses...

I would have thought that antidepressants would have increased her memory problems, not helped to solve them. Nobody thought that the girl's problems could have been brain damage from the accident she had? Do doctors normally test electrical activity in the brain of people who've had car...

Every time I see that word "cognitions" I automatically translate it to "thoughts" as I read it. Despite looking up the definition I'm still none the wiser as to whether "thoughts" is accurate, but I don't think it is. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ...

Let me guess... If the authors think they can prove a connection between stress and MS it will only take a few weeks after that before they declare in the media that MS is caused by stress and can be fixed with CBT and exercise.

Have you tried magnesium oil? It isn't a true oil - it has no hydrocarbons in it. It is rubbed on the skin. It can be bought ready made or, with the right ingredients, people can make it themselves. I have no idea how well the magnesium is absorbed from mag oil, but it does get mentioned quite...

I don't have any thoughts on those except that they seem to be very expensive. A couple of years ago I bought a 500g bag of magnesium citrate powder (food grade) for under £10 from Ebay or Amazon. I take it at a dose of quarter of a level teaspoon in orange juice. I keep it in a plastic box...

ONS figures have shown an increase of 22% in excess deaths in the UK (week 16 of this year, plus some other weeks too). The man who posted it is not a medical doctor, he is a PhD (I think).

I got it to open a relevant reddit page when I right-clicked on the link and "opened link in new tab." https://www.reddit.com/r/Residency/comments/13hotb3/which_medical_diagnoses_you_are_skeptical_of_in/

I assume that any doctor who is unexpectedly nice to me is just good at acting, if I have already been scowled at by receptionists and/or secretaries and/or nurses before I met the doctor himself or herself.

I usually reject the idea of going to A&E if the problem I have is invisible, and I just keep my fingers crossed that it won't turn out that I have cancer, or am suffering a heart attack, or a stroke.

Has Alan Carson ever been known to complain about groups discussing FND, ME, or Long Covid which were 100% psychiatric/psychological/mental health orientated? Edit : Just wanted to say that this post was written with tongue firmly in cheek.

So, is that implying that patients with dementia in one of its many forms [Edit: for example] actually have "Functional Cognitive Disorder" and could have better memories if only they tried harder? And "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy"? Always sounds to me like the therapist must be telling...

Yes, but I think from the BPS point of view, patients are lying about their fatigue health because they are lazy, drug-seeking, attention-seeking hypochondriacs. A lot of doctors have similar points of view about women talking about their pelvic pain and their periods. Edit : Changed the word...