BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

Fitness industry’s role in rehabilitating COVID-19 sufferers 'cannot be over-estimated'

https://www.healthclubmanagement.co...e-Steve-Ward-Dane-Vishnubala-Active-IQ/346202

It can, in fact, be overestimated.

 

Reads more like an aspirational plan than anything. Basically a hammer demanding nails.


The Role of Rehabilitation in Individuals with Coronavirus COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review

https://gavinpublishers.com/article...h-coronavirus-covid-19-a-comprehensive-review

Evidence-based medicine fails again. At this point it's beyond embarrassing, this is just an evidence laundering process where people just put out whatever they want to be true and others build on the same thing they want to be true.

 

From post #153 above, in the first quote :

I half expected to see the addition of "or else xxxxx" at the end of that sentence. For anything medical or health related to be mandatory always strikes me as being very threatening.

 

To read those articles makes one suspect that the initiative involves people with highly developed muscles... particularly between the ears. we all recognise that the sector has been badly affected by lockdowns and quarantine, but it would help if vested, commercial interest were not so obvious.

Never look a gift milch cow, that lays the golden egg, in the mouth.

 

The Danes* at RecoveryNorge are at it again:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1304135187677224961


I especially love the fact that it is known that most people naturally recover from PVFS and so any such story is as irrelevant and unremarkable as people who recover from colds because of healing crystals or whatever.

* It's an inside joke between me and... probably another person, nevermind

 

There is more to unpack in that article so this is just for starters:

Of all the information out there that people with ME might wish everyone knew my present top choice is for someone somewhere to do a very clear study on recovery after getting ill with a virus (I know that's too vague). I would very much like it to generally be better understood that some people who have symptoms that linger past a few weeks will still recover without assistance and with adequate rest. And that others will not be so lucky.

 

Retweeted by @FatigatioeV I see. @TiredSam

 

Guh. I'm afraid the covid long-haulers are in for a dizzying assortment of unusually heavily concentrated bullshit campaigns as certain types mobilize to stake out some of the space for their interests.

 

I am in the process of rereading Osler's Web. I find that I had forgotten much of it. Last night I got to page 471 in the chapter "A Conspiracy of Dunces".

Anthony Fauci, director of the (NIAID), refused requests for an interview in the spring of 1991. According to a member of the Institute's public relations staff, Laurie Doepel, Fauci "didn't feel he had followed (CFS)" closely enough to be interviewed on the subject. Fauci's deputy assistant, James Hill, would be happy to talk about it, however, Doepel said. During an interview....Hill assured the interviewer he could speak for Anthony Fauci on the disease. When pressed for his boss's scientific views of the disease, Hill said, "Fauci wonders why the patients are so upset about being labeled with a psychiatric problem. I remember he said to me, "Haven't we come far enough along in our society that mental illness needn't carry a stigma?"

Hearsay evidence, I know, but he has had plenty of time to deny it.

Now, where have I hears that about stigmatisation of psychiatric illness before.

 

They didn't understand then and they don't understand now. It's not the stigma that we're upset about!

 

Yes. People would get just as upset if they were misdiagnosed with cancer when they didn't have it. There would be no suggestion of stigmatising cancer patients. It is simply that misdiagnosis is hugely problematic in and of itself.

 

Intentional or not, for the record, this acts as a classic "straw man" argument, i.e. a false premise used as an adversarial point of debate which the intellectually sloppy psychologists think they can win, instead of facing the real point, which would be the priority of anyone who had sincerely benign intentions.

In this case, falsely claiming ME patients are opposed to mischaracterisation of ME as mental illness because they are afraid of the stigma; when this is not the basis of the objection, which is that mischaracterisation leads to mistreatment, e.g. like faith based treatments for aggressive cancer, which not only don't work but are positively harmful because they cause patients not to get the treatment which could save them.

In ME its even worse than that, because some psychologists have even forced patients to do what makes them iller and on occasion caused death as a result, as happened to poor Sophia Mirza though there are many more accounts of PWME being made much iller, such as Karina Hansen.


WRT Anthony Fauci, I have been glad of his recent comparison of ME/CFS with longcovid, this sounds like someone who has latterly recognised the nature of the problem due to good advice from wise counsel.

It sounds to me as if his earlier approach reflected misinformation from the insurance backed psych lobby, trying to get their toe in the door of decision makers, which he has since discarded. I think the 1996 Mental Health Parity Act++ was a watershed moment regarding the political discussion over medical insurance motives in this matter, so the timing would make sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Parity_Act

I hope he might prove to be a valuable ally in the search for a rational approach to researching this kind of condition.

 

That sounds very like someone who had very little knowledge of the disease being told by the "experts" from the CDC that there was controversy because it was a psychological disease but that patients were not happy to be told it was not physical. They are believed now and were even more likely to be believed then

 

We have a call arranged with them next week!

 

Actually - just had an update - we offered them a call and they have yet to come back to us!