Unrest film - Jen Brea

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The Times / Our lives were frozen by chronic fatigue syndrome
By Damian Whitworth

An energetic PhD student at Harvard, Jennifer Brea had her life shattered by ME. Now she has made a film, Unrest, about her slow recovery
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Sitting cross-legged in the front room of a friend’s London house, Brea says that Britain’s lack of investment in research into ME and its guidelines on how to treat the illness make this “not an easy place to have ME”. At the moment the NHS lists cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy as the first two treatments for CFS/ME sufferers to consider.

In America the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed these treatments from its website. Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) said last month that it would review its guidelines on diagnosis and management of the illness. Brea says that CBT can help sufferers of chronic illnesses to adapt to their new reality, but it is being used to help people to overcome their fear of exercising again in an often crude way. This leads to them overexerting and suffering worse symptoms. “It’s as if you had a national guideline that recommended that diabetics eat sugar to feel better.”
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...-frozen-by-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-rdftnm75p
 
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It has taken prime position in the Times 2 section of today's print edition. Times 2 is the daily section with magazine type articles at the front, TV in the middle and games at the back. It's spread across the centre of pages 2 and 3, occupying in excess of a page worth of space.

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I am interested in thoughts on whether I should post something like the page image above as a legible image or, as I have done, as an overview to protect copyright across the paywall. I could have done something more legible, perhaps spread over multiple screen grabs. I currently have a subscription.

Mods, should we set some guidance? My thoughts are based on past practice in the other place.
 
JCB said:
I am interested in thoughts on whether I should post something like the page image above as a legible image or, as I have done, as an overview to protect copyright across the paywall. I could have done something more legible, perhaps spread over multiple screen grabs. I currently have a subscription.

Mods, should we set some guidance? My thoughts are based on past practice in the other place.
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My thought is that the image you posted isn't a copyright issue, since the image quality is low enough that we can't read the article. But it is nice to see the image of the article, since that demonstrates the high profile of the story. I can't imagine the publisher having a problem with it, since it's free publicity for them.

Whole articles shouldn't be quoted and it's best to include your own discussion/comments of any cited portions, to qualify as fair use.
 
Thanks.

Valentijn said:
My thought is that the image you posted isn't a copyright issue, since the image quality is low enough that we can't read the article. But it is nice to see the image of the article, since that demonstrates the high profile of the story. I can't imagine the publisher having a problem with it, since it's free publicity for them.
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Yes, this is what I intended.

Valentijn said:
Whole articles shouldn't be quoted and it's best to include your own discussion/comments of any cited portions, to qualify as fair use.
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Agreed.
 
Cosmopolitan UK : What it’s like to live with an incurable illness no-one believes is real

Jennifer Brea had her whole life ahead of her when she was struck down with a fever and flu aged 28. She was a PHD student studying political economy and statistics at the esteemed Harvard University in Boston; she had just got engaged to her partner Omar; and she was a keen traveller who had spent lengths of time carrying out research in China and eastern Africa. “I felt like everything was falling into place, like my adult life was about to start,” Jennifer recalled.
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http://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body...is-jennifer-brea-chronic-fatigue-unrest-film/

Edit: As a reminder, there was another article in Cosmo.com a few days ago:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a12779054/what-is-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
 
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The Guardian / Unrest review – powerful documentary about chronic fatigue syndrome
by Leslie Felperin

Short review...

The film staunchly argues that it is a mysterious but physiological condition, a position disputed by some doctors and psychologists, particularly in Denmark, where, in a recent controversial case, an adolescent girl was taken into care because the state believed her parents were deliberately keeping her bedbound. The debate still rages, but there is no questioning that the suffering is real – and all too invisible because of homebound situation of its many victims.
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/unrest-review-powerful-documentary-about-chronic-fatigue-syndrome?CMP=share_btn_tw
 
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TiredSam said:
A rather short, half-hearted fence-sitting review I thought.
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To me it seemed like 'It didn't fall in line with our frightfully self-righteous touchy feely approach to everything so we thought it was boring and we didn't bother to go in the garden to be either one side of the fence or the other or even sit on it. Some other people seemed to think it was newsworthy so we thought we had better say something, in the form of a disconnected word salad of inconclusive references to things we remembered about ME, er CFS, er whatsitsname ...'
 
user9876 said:
I'm about to cancel the Guardian so I may tell them this is the final straw.
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Ask them to employ a Russian correspondent who can speak Russian, is not scared of common apartment cleaning procedures, and is not a plagiarist for me while you do so please.

(I know, but it was a bugbear of mine until I finally stopped reading it.)
 
chrisb said:
The juxtaposition of the titles appears to be a metaphor.
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I saw the Stalin film last night and hope to see Unrest at the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday. The Stalin film is impressive, not least because famous faces like Russell Beale and Palin delight with masterful characterisation while sort of winking at the audience in a pantomime way at the same time. The timeliness is very clear and powerful. And Ianucci seems to revel in saying 'Yes, it's obvious and it's all been said by Orwell but we still forget the present is just the same as before. And maybe it is becoming even more like before.'

For Unrest to be paired with Ianucci in the Spectator is a quite spectacular achievement - and I presume well deserved. The review does not seem to get into the political implications that much but maybe there is an implication that both films are about the surreal nature of the 'received wisdom'.
 
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