@dundrum and anyone else interested, Professor Brian Hughes book Psychology in Crisis is and enlightening read. It even has a chapter on the PACE...
It's also important when making claims about efficacy to put them in context. Just saying there was as statistically significant improvement on...
Short term statistical significance in subjective questionnaires that was not maintained at followup, not supported by objective evidence and not...
Perhaps because the BPS people think they have already established what they believe to be true, and don't understand that their studies are...
As we have already explained many times, patient organisations are rightly critical of badly designed trials. If someone proposed yet another...
It is the wrong criteria when applied to people who are diagnosed with different criteria. The key point being, as I'm sure you are aware, that...
S4ME was my immediate thought too. Researchers know where we are. They are welcome to join us and tell us about their research, and discuss with...
Would exclusion of those with somatisation disorder, whatver that is, mean the sample selected primarily experienced fatigue, and not other...
What about biology - anemia is common in menstruating women, as is menstrual pain and the effect on mood and sleep of hormone cycles. But of...
Is there anthing more daft than creating a 'diagnostic algorithm' that is designed to include people with a wide range of symptoms and diagnoses,...
I looked up the original paper on the study. It's interesting that only a few months (March to October 2005) after they published their analysis...
I could have done easily when my ME/CFS was mild and I was still working and crashing quite often. When crashed my SF-36 physical function would...
I tried reading the whole article but had to stop as it was so distressingly judgemental and so unrelated to my own experience I found it...
There is a world of difference between a precipitating factor and a perpetuating factor. I know of no evidence that stress of any kind...
If I read this correctly, it seems that they found that what one believes about the cause of illness has no effect on the subjective outcomes of a...
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I don't know what you imagine most people with ME/CFS's lives are like. Many, if not most of us, have no option but to push our limits. We know...
It is actually very difficult to avoid ALL exercise. Turning over in bed is exertion, thinking is cognitive exertion, if someone is starting to...
How do you know that fear of exercise can prevent natural recovery? Fear of exercise might prevent someone doing fitness exercises and getting...
This disregards the prescribing doctor's professional ethics and insurance. A responsible doctor is surely unlikely to risk their career and...
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