Same old garbage, and as is clearly fashionable, summoning "The neuroscience" as an explanation. Based on nothing at all. There is nothing from modern neuroscience that explains any of this. Absolutely empty of any real arguments. As is tradition. And yet most of the article explicitly frames everything under "predictive processing". Although it's correct that usually it's not one explanation, rather it's literally any explanation that appears to convince some patients of something vague and generic. But regardless of which particular explanation is chosen in any given moment or context by one person or another, there is one underlying model: the undying belief in "psychosocial" causes, and that is the one explanation they always vaguely fall back to. Just empty bleating that has not budged one single bit from what their predecessors were bleating a century ago.
If no one stops them, is it really a breach? Absolutely, but not only will no one stop them, they will be encouraged to do this, and every part of the system will defend and promote it as good. And this is basically like the old joke about a hero behaving like a deranged drunk, harassing people left and right and being criticized for "not behaving like a hero". Except by definition if a hero behaves like that, it is the behavior of a hero. The problem with circular credibility.
Podcast episode by SFAM about functional disorders, in Swedish. Carl Sjöström om funktionella tillstånd https://share.transistor.fm/s/a6793d47 ("SFAM, the Swedish Association of General Practice, is the professional and scientific college of general practitioners (family physicians) in Sweden, a non-profit organisation with about 2000 members. SFAM is affiliated to the Swedish Society of Medicine (Svenska Läkaresällskapet) as well as the Swedish Medical Association (Läkarförbundet). Main areas of interest for SFAM are continuing professional development, training of future GPs, assessment of competence, quality improvement and research in general practice/family medicine.")
Vogt (former leader of Recovery Norge) has written an opinion piece about cosmetic surgeries without medical justification. He argues that it’s wrong that private actors can profit on surgeries that carries a risk while the government pays for any negative consequences. Maybe he could apply the same critical thinking to his other endeavours?
Petition for better healthcare for people with POTS and other kinds of dysautonomia in Sweden. Please share widely! Dysautonomi Sverige, the network behind this petition, is doing great work, having meetings with politicians and other people in power among other things, so this is not "just a petition" but will be used as a part of ongoing advocacy https://www.skrivunder.com/skriv_under_for_en_forbattrad_vard_for_dysautonomipots_i_sverige
Feeling the fear of many: orienting affects in Swedish austerity politics https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1411526/full "This article investigates the emotional consequences of austerity politics targeting services and support for disabled citizens in Sweden, contributing to ongoing debates in disability studies and welfare state governance. Drawing on theories of crip phenomenology, the study focuses on how austerity policies produce affective responses—particularly fear—among disabled individuals. Based on qualitative interviews, the empirical material was collected from disabled citizens navigating the Swedish welfare system under intensified austerity measures. The research examines how these citizens experience the impact of policy reforms and the bureaucratic implementation of support reduction. The results reveal a pervasive sense of fear, disorientation, and existential insecurity, as well as increased instances of bodily harm. These affects are linked to the experience of bureaucratic violence and ableist discourse embedded in the governance of welfare services. Participants describe how these dynamics constrain their capacity to imagine and pursue viable personal futures. The article argues that austerity-driven policy changes have reshaped not only the material conditions of disabled citizens but also their emotional and social lives. It challenges the notion of ‘Swedish exceptionalism’ by illustrating how bureaucratic violence disrupts disabled individuals’ experience of full citizenship. These findings offer new insight into the relationship between affect, power, and policy in a contemporary welfare state context."
Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Something about how historical perspective is required to fully appreciate current event. Imagine how our reality would have been if the pretend philosophers of psycho-babbel had the same level of critical thinking..
bureaucratic violence . This seems to be the world wide situation when did it become acceptable to have our political systems full of careless thugs .
