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The Tudor Sweating Sickness and ME/CFS: A Hypothesis of Pathogenic Evolution and Modern Disease Manifestation Matthew, Kovacs Abstract This paper presents a novel hypothesis connecting Tudor Sweating Sickness (TSS), which caused five major epidemics in England between 1485 and 1551, with...

https://chroniclivingtherapy.com/ripple-effects-stigma/ 2300-word article. THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF STIGMA This post looks at the effects of ‘psychologisation’ and stigma – in particular as it relates to M.E. (or ME/CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). The effects are far-reaching and have blocked...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/future-of-medicine/ Every disease is a policy failure Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing. 11th August 2026 By Saloni Dattani Massive 4500-word article. About the...

I think Jonathan Edwards had recommended this book at one point. I started skimming the revised edition a bit. I thought I’d make a thread to discuss it. https://www.jameslefanu.com/books-rise-and-fall.html

The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history Miller, Christine M.; Moen, Janna K.; Iwasaki, Akiko Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has drawn global attention to post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS), with millions affected by post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, or...

I wanted to make a general thread where we can discuss and collect evidence of how Psychiatry has tended to view phenomena (illnesses, lifestyles, personalities, sexual orientations, gender identities etc.) in the past. Especially of interest to make comparisons to ME/CFS and perhaps observe...

COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting (I added some line breaks and bolding...

nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/ eta: I think it was in response to this Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME

I'm making what may be a doomed attempt over the next 8 months to complete the masters degree I've been on a leave of absence from for 4 years. I have to write a "capstone" (a short dissertation), and I've chosen to write it on Long Covid and ME. I'm going to have a brief overview of the...

Dr. Salit responds - PMC

Myalgic encephalomyelitis - PMC

"I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse" I have OCD. Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques made it worse (msn.com)

David J Black: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? | Scottish Legal News

Substack Making sense of ME/CFS Melvin Ramsay, the Royal Free Hospital outbreak, and the evolving understanding of ME. Myalgic encephalomyelitis, 1955-1990 - by K. Johnstone (substack.com)

Around the mid 1850s, Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis and Florence Nightingale led the way in advocating handwashing to prevent infections, yet it took over a century for their practices to gain widespread acceptance. Meanwhile, John Snow challenged prevailing beliefs about cholera transmission...

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 September 21, 1944 N Engl J Med 1944; 231:414-418 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM194409212311203 subscription needed for access to full article.

https://archive.org/details/39002010195692.med.yale.edu/page/2/mode/2up I've not had the chance to read this, it's an early 20th century book about neurasthenia, that I'm told describes PEM without calling it that, and gives good advice. (Not sure where else to post this)

Threadreader thread by tapanui flu on Tapanui flu https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1686340525346193408.html

The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front Laurent Tatu; Julien Bogousslavsky; Thierry Moulin; Jean-Luc Chopard The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with...