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Not that I can think of, but it is definitely in the same MUS/"I don't believe in this illness" category that psychosomatic ideology has captured. Progress is achingly slow, but as more and more conditions falsely categorized as psychosomatic get figured out, it will diminish the validity of...

So it appears that most people (in general, in the media) are focusing on the serotonin and Prozac part, and very little on the platelets and interferon part, or the tryptophan. Figures. I don't know but if there's a deficit of some important molecule I wouldn't try some harebrained way of...

But it's holistic. How can it be bad?!

Is this not all stuff known for decades? Centuries even? Millennia?! Because aside from the silly New age biopsychosocial stuff making fatigue about lack of motivation, all of this has been well-known for decades. I guess there's the cognitive effort being similar that is not fully accepted...

I asked my good buddy ChatGPT what those genes do:

The science behind it? Ah! Good one. These quacks never needed to bother with that before, and are still getting paid anyway, their opinions presented as fact. They won't stop as long as they get away with it, and we are long past the point at which most of the blame lays with the institutions...

So the state this quackery is in: having asserted for decades that all those things are the causative and perpetuating mechanisms of conversion disorder, they can't even support the notion of an association, and their conclusion is that more research is needed. Because they made up all those...

It really is all projection. All of it. Every single part of psychosomatization is pure projection. The illness beliefs. The being unable to accept biological explanations. The reattribution to alternative causes. The internal conflicts and frustration at being told "you're wrong". Even the...

Seems to be more of a common ancestor kind of thing, but fundamentally the ideas and their rationalizations are the exact same, just applied to a different thing. Hence why the 'treatment' is basically the exact same.

Damn. What century is this? Hell, what millennia are these people stuck in?

Bold take but I think there may be something to that germ theory of disease thing, and that isn't a simple "pathogen X can only cause disease-Y-caused-by-pathogen-X", or whatever arbitrary combination of ideas is currently accepted. I wonder if there's a point back in time when this could have...

That's because the standard questionnaires have multiple questions about physical symptoms, which gives false positives on purpose. The problem isn't overlapping answers, it's overlapping questions. And the questions overlap deliberately to conflate many chronic illnesses as mental illness...

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Mental Health Is a Universal Right https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6323214/mental-health-care-delivery-who-chile/ It's BS like cowardly putting Long Covid as a mental...

Oh plenty of people lied about that. Well, they expressed their opinion about it, and that opinion was incorrect. But mostly on television and in newspapers, which is where most people hear about it. Because of this, it has been the dominant message most people received, even though...

Don't really know what else to search for, but I did a quick search for co-creation and, well: So if the topic is building trust through co-creation, and they haven't done any co-creation... I guess it's all just stuff that sounds good but that's as far as they're willing to take it. It looks...

It's a common trope to bemoan the lack of progress out of biomedicine, aka scientific medicine, in mental health and psychiatry. But really this isn't especially surprising when a field is still in its infancy, and barely has a basic catalogue of what the organ is made of. Psychiatry is barely...

The absolute weirdest part of this is that the ideologues behind this ridiculous concept reject the validity of the patients' illnesses because they are the patients' subjective experience, but in response to this they invent an entire category of subjective illness where they are the subject...

Not much to do with that, unfortunately. It can mostly be summed as: medicine has no idea what fatigue is or how to define it, and that's the state we are still in. They tried comparing 'interoception' ability, defined as being able to match perception of heart beat, with fatigue perception. I...

"Looking back on it... do you think the NHS or public health authorities could have done more in those early months to respond to the developing picture?" "So I think with hindsight the answer to that is absolutely yes, that they were left alone with what is a very frightening condition...

How does that amount to stress? Almost without fail, where 'stress' is used to mean something else than exertion, and the same is true about almost all uses of anxiety, you can perfectly substitute with "I don't like this situation". Which, in my opinion, is a perfectly reasonable take most of...