Opinion piece: Long covid: new wine in need of new bottles, 2021, Bannerjee

SNT Gatchaman said:
Fast-forward 30 years and in this very forum are a number of your colleagues that would have appreciated some help. Cheers mate, thanks a lot.
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Yep, my diagnosing physician said “well, you don’t look depressed” (thanks mate, definitely a save, as no recommendation to GP to refer me to Psych), my DOT worked in the psychosomatic sector, he found me very perplexing…:laugh:
 
The title of Wessely's 1990 article, "Old wine in new bottles, neurasthenia and 'ME' " was meant to suggest that the "old wine" of neurasthenia was being "remarketed" in the "new bottle" of "ME." Basically, it was a sarcastic way of saying "What was old is new again."

It's also an inversion, or "turn," on the New Testament parable of "new wine in old wineskins," which describes a "paradigm shift" in which something new is too different to be compatible with something older. New wine would burst old wineskins.

If one wanted to be sarcastic, one might describe attempts to make biological investigations of Long Covid compatible with older BPS views as being like trying to put "new wine in old wineskins."

If one wanted to be sarcastic...
 
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