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About exactly what was going through my head reading the comment above. They are using basic arithmetic on numbers that aren't even natural. Where they do the equivalent of 1+1+1+1+1=5, but each number representing 1 doesn't have a fixed value of 1 in a valid number system. This way of doing...

So, entirely consistent with no actual difference in condition, but a difference in how that condition is reported. As was expected of 'treatments' that consist of telling people to do just that. Congratulations, you just re-invented a very expensive way of having people slightly distort their...

The feeling poisoned bit, in itself, not just related to drinking alcohol, is hard to reconcile because of slight variations between people and how we experience reality. We are basically all trying to describe a color that we can all see but without any reference point as to what other people...

It took restraint not to make it! Especially with that one comment about having to experiment with it. You know, for science!

Yes, that's a bit overemphasized. I only recently started taking naps (mostly meditation but whatever) during the day. Even at my worst in recent years I would otherwise never lie flat at all during the day. I wouldn't do much during the day but it doesn't make a big difference overall, I...

I think this is as good as it gets. Which is really sad, all things considered, since this was basically all known decades ago. Not put together, but it was known, in bits and pieces. It's just hard to see how it could come about until social media made the kind of discussions we have here...

The same way as not spending money is not a treatment for poverty. This shouldn't be hard to understand. It's literally easy to understand. But lots of people struggle with both propositions, with plenty who even think that not helping poor people is the better option. It's the same underlying...

I still haven't seen that actually supports the existence of any functional anything that isn't a simple "we don't know yet, and therefore assume there is nothing to know". It's every bit as bad as the evidence for the fictional behavioral model of chronic fatigue. The illnesses are real, the...

This field of research can really be summed up as: "we've got a lot of theories but not a lot of data". This paper does nothing to improve on it. Right below this line is the classic diagram with a loop of thoughts and behaviors of self-reinforcing fatigue. Because an infinite loop as a symbol...

I don't understand using the terminology of "systematic review" when most of the studies are excluded. This is anything but systematic, there have been far more than 17 trials, even since 2011, obviously none of which are controlled and most of them are poorly randomized, suffer from huge...

'Invisible'. Covered up. Disbelieved. Denied to exist until it explodes so much it can't be fully ignored. Not really the same thing. The people who should be aware of this literally refuse to record it, usually don't recognize it when they see it, and talk nonsense about it most of the time...

There's also the possibility that it was a lie all along, was planned this way. Garner's stories have enough holes and oddities that it is a possibility. It sure fits the kind of tactics psychosomatic ideologues are willing to do. I normally don't go there, have not for anyone else, but there...

Looking at the interventions, this seems to make some sense in terms of managing behavioral problems. Possibly, although this is all so generic that any LLM could do at least as good. But to think this can treat symptoms of illness is seriously delusional. And as usual the data are awful and do...

I mentioned this in another thread so won't rehash the whole thing. But from what I see in comments on social media of people being gaslighted with "mind-body" BS is that, while some accept it, the vast majority don't just reject it, they know very well they are being told a complete bunch of...

And considering that it's probably above average. :arghh:

I'm surprised there hasn't been more posts about the inquiry because I keep seeing clips popping up and the discussions are really illuminating. The questions are often very good. The answers are generally awful. There is a lot of discussion of Long Covid, the lack of preparedness, lack of...

So, the very same stuff that has been asserted for decades and used in real life clinical practice on millions, to widespread failure. Here it's just a modest proposal. "Exploring" the idea. Anyway, has anyone tried handing the richest people in society huge tax cuts and fiscal loopholes, see if...

I can't say for children, they don't tend to write on patient forums, but from reading tens of thousands of comments going back 4.5 years of Long Covid about having their illness and symptoms being psychologized, they all appreciate when health-care professionals instead simply admit that they...

From testimonies of this in the LC community, which are far more common than in the ME community, I get the impression that it is more associated to POTS and dysautonomia, as well as MCAS, than ME/CFS. With the overlap between those, and how those overlaps fluctuate, it's hard to tell. However I...

And hence continues the problem of studies that contradict each other, leading rational people to simply tune out. Good grief what a mess. No wonder people go to shady social media sources and Youtube rabbit holes that reinforce their beliefs. If authoritative sources are so confused, might as...