Editorial: Concern for Covid-19 cough, fever and impact on mental health. What about risk of Somatic Symptom Disorder? 2021, Willis & Chalder

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09638237.2021.1875418

 

And how do they explain COVID deaths? What about death when one is in a medically induced coma re COVID?

 

This is why I rely on HDD's and USB flash drives instead of SSD's.

 

It appears to be an effort on the part of MUS campaigners to colonize the category of all those suffering from non-specific symptoms for more than a certain period of time after a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19. They are planting their flag on this territory building on questionable previous research.

 

Watch it fly

ETA I wonder if Dr Alwan (?) has seen this, or has any comprehension of what us potentially coming down the line in UK

 

Tweeted Dr Alwan.

 

Does anyone please know how I can share this without giving them the ‘traffic’ of reads, or does this only apply when we are trying not to give newspaper articles the views? sorry, not ‘best brain’ available today.

Happy to share warnings of this to LC community on twitter, should I include any other evidence eg @Tom Kindlon studies??

 

'Online' version of the article if anybody wants to avoid downloading a PDF, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638237.2021.1875418

 

TC
"The term 'somatic symptom disorder' which is very controversial but I really like it.
I like it because the same model can be applied irrespective of the cause of the
symptom"
https://www.s4me.info/threads/cogni...20-goldstein-chalder.15251/page-4#post-273720

 

Thank you.
Link and a Keith Geraghty study have been posted
https://twitter.com/user/status/1356560825255870466

 

https://twitter.com/user/status/1356523269621493760

 

That Candy study doesn't demonstrate much. It was a small study and they tend not to mention that there was no significant difference in questionnaire scores at 12 months (the control group just got a leaflet telling then about EBV).



More info here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/2003-...in-infectious-mononucleosis.8644/#post-152392

 

They can't even provide any evidence that this is of any use beyond the fact that people, mostly themselves, have been using it. It's the same recycled drivel they have been saying for 3 decades. Completely unchanged. I especially love that they quote this: “excessive, disproportionate or maladaptive”.

Who are they quoting? Themselves. And a judgment call that no human being has the ability to do. They are claiming mind-reading abilities.

As usual it's not that someone says anything this stupid, it's that it gets published and discussed, albeit superficially, by people who genuinely want to apply astrology-level nonsense in real life.

If there were justice in the world, these people would be sentenced to punishment based on a wheel spin. Just completely arbitrary and ideally built for maximum ironic cruelty.

 

Moved from the long Covid thread

Trial By Error: New Biopsychosocial Paper on Long-Covid and Somatic Symptom Disorder

https://www.virology.ws/2021/02/09/...r-on-long-covid-and-somatic-symptom-disorder/

 

Delays in diagnosis for common neurological diseases are already several years on average. This will make it all so much worse. It's baffling that people whose job it is to think about that don't see it (or aren't concerned by it, hard to say which). Especially as they harp against biomedical research for being hard, the only thing that makes any significant progress in medicine. This here is pure regression.

 

I too love to just put labels and boxes in random orders to make what I guess must be some kind of point here.

Not sure how a CBT expert is also an expert in chronic illness but whatever it's not as if labels matter or something.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1357637061658968069