2023 Washington Post article: 'For Long Covid fatigue, a strategy called 'pacing' helps, but at a cost

[wabi-sabi]

I just saw an article on pacing and long COVID in the Washington Post. It's generally decent, except that it has to mention yet again, that CBT/GET might be useful for some patients- some doctors think. Does anyone have the energy to write a letter to the editor rebuttal to take these people to task? The stop beating the dead horse already?

Here's the link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/16/long-covid-fatigue-pacing/

 

[belbyr]

Is this the article that Whitney Dafoe had a statement in? I can't see the article.

 

[ahimsa]

Is this the article that Whitney Dafoe had a statement in? I can't see the article.

Yes. His quote is at the very end.

Whitney Dafoe, 39, of Palo Alto, Calif., is an award-winning photographer who has lived with ME/CFS since the age of 21. Pacing helps him conserve enough energy to use his phone and computer and to take self portraits that document severe ME/CFS. But he is unable to leave bed and is fed through a tube. He responded to questions by email.

People with ME/CFS should think of pacing as a way of life, he said. “Pacing is how you survive,” he wrote.

Here's a gift link for the article (no paywall for 14 days):

https://wapo.st/3GLDrJQ

This same Washington Post article is also being discussed on this thread:

https://www.s4me.info/threads/long-covid-in-the-media-and-social-media-2023.31490/page-3#post-456634