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PACE promotion.

Or patients are learning the rehab approach is useless, and often worse, and quite rightly voting with their feet.

Exactly.

Yep. The whole thing is a complete fiction, spun from the finest of rhetorical threads, and powered entirely by their obsession with proving psychosomatics is actually a Very Important Phenomenon. No really, guys. Never been clear exactly who it is they are most trying to convince, the rest of...

All hail Richard the Peacemaker. :emoji_bow:

What has ever gone wrong with a passenger ship sailing across the Atlantic?

Excessive sweating I think there might be something to this one. Heard this anecdotally a few times over the years, and experienced it myself. Specifically, earlier onset, wider distribution, and greater volume. Maybe not extreme hyperhydrosis, but a definite change. But I agree there is not...

Wessely defended Eysneck. Just saying. The entire purpose of this stuff is to create a psychosocial environment where patients do not feel safe in reporting symptoms or their degree. Which is more than a little ironic. It is a particularly insidious and cowardly form of intimidation and...

There is literally no possible excuse for somebody claiming any degree of expert status to not know the full history of their field, and in considerable detail. That is their damn job. Anything less is reckless wilful ignorance at best, and extreme incompetence, dishonesty, and callousness...

The whole concept of a baseline is unevidenced. It is just an arbitrary piece of nonsense to try justifying their 'treatment' model.

Thanks for doing this. The psycho-behavioural club has never presented any evidence for deconditioning being a significant factor, and indeed have not even made any serious attempt to robustly test that critical assumption. Instead, all the evidence is pointing in the opposite direction: that...

'pacing up' is another.

So why did they not use a longer term assessment? The issues with confounding effects in short-term self-report assessments, especially for CBT, et al, that require time to wash out, are well known including in ME/CFS studies. Interestingly, given it is supposedly the "definitive" work on this...

This is not going to end well.

And like most gossip it tends to be malicious. Now there is a cultural echo from the past. I wonder how many here know who he was. he he :sneaky:

Shh. Don't mention the 4 billion ton gorilla in a neon pink tutu in the room.

Outcomes were assessed at baseline (T0) and after five weeks (T1). On subjective self-report outcomes, after just five weeks treatment for a condition known to last years (and potentially a lot longer), via an inpatient program designed to get patients to report better scores on subjective...

Wot he sed.

I tried 3-4 different kinds of massage in the early years and did not find any of them helpful. If anything they left me worse off.

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