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These are inappropriate generalisations based on being a visitor/tourist in two units. The reality is that if you have a "functional disorder" you will have your window blinds opened (which is difficult to cope with when you have light sensitivity issues), asked to attend the dining room for...

Anecdotal but a family member of mine died of dehydration/starvation caused by another disease and at no point did any medical doctor offer any suggestions regarding nutritional support, or any help of any kind really. I used to think it was just those of us with ME/CFS who got this sort of...

Supplementary Table 11: Cohen’s D estimates for BT, NMR, and proteomics

I've not had the chance to read the paper in detail yet so perhaps I missed it but I noticed in the DAG that physical activity was modelled as a mediator but I didn't see mention of body mass index being a potential mediator. The sorts of blood tests listed above are routinely performed on...

Any update on this that can be shared publicly?

42% increase in RELATIVE risk. These sorts of weak associations are found between childhood abuse and all sorts of medical conditions including obesity, cancer, heart disease, diabetes etc. There's a huge number of papers on this topic. The problem is that when these sorts of papers are...

DBT is dialectic behaviour therapy, a pseudoscientific talk therapy for borderline personality disorder. Like CBT and all other talk therapies, trials are typically conducted by people who are bought into the ideology and the results appear positive as a result of such biases.

Mirza case is quite similar to Maeve in that she developed intolerance to eating and drinking and died as a result. The hospital made her worse (psychiatric treatment, no medical feeding support) and she was sectioned under the false assumption that her mother was making her worse due to false...

Same. I marvelled at how well-spoken the callers were. I could never!

I knew a guy who was told this sort of thing after what seemed like a routine infection. Long story short, it turned out to be Sydenham’s chorea.

Unfortunately, psychiatric nurses are trained in the concept of behavioural activation which in practice results in loud, chaotic wards with nurses barging into patient rooms yapping very loudly about nonsense and encouraging the patient to chat and do things. For anyone with sensory issues, not...

These geniuses. When I get an ounce of energy, I have to do the 100 things that piled up on the to-do list while I had low energy. It's a consequence, not a cause of the condition.

I don't want to pile on this caller. I also cringed at the things he was saying but we need to be careful to not discourage people from sharing their harrowing experiences of this illness just because they don't advocate in quite the right way. This person is likely just repeating nonsense he...

This approach presupposes that everyone has capacity which is not true. These sorts of arguments are really dangerous because they tend to be used in anti-psychiatry circles to deny the sickest people the treatments that they need.

Currently the institutions are in on it. If you report that one of their employees is an academic fraud, they do everything they can to sweep it under the rug. Don’t even get me started on retracting papers. Almost impossible.

And so many people spoke so powerfully about living death and loneliness and disbelief from so-called medical professionals. Wow.

Tremendous segment. Thanks to everyone who phoned in. You can really feel the culture shift. When I first came down with this 30 years ago, there was no positive mainstream coverage. Now, the BPSers are on the back foot.

I think they latched onto HR as an explanation because it was the only objective abnormality they could see during an office visit. In actuality people with ME/CFS with and without HR spike can’t be upright.

This author publishes a lot. He should consider publishing less, preferably nothing, since he is convinced of the wrong things and seems incapable of learning from feedback from people with lived experiences of the concepts that are only an abstraction to him.

My issue with this group is that their work isn't improving. I first joined the other forum 11 years ago and have been seeing their methodologically inadequate and underpowered studies appearing ever since. Usually accompanied by huge hype from the authors, only to be forgotten in the bowels of...