All physical symptoms are signs of mental illness, but mental illness doesn't exist. Handy in getting rid of the pesky patients, but he may not...
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I don't like this use of 'feeling sick' in a questionnaire. Does it mean feeling ill or the specific symptom of being nauseous? I know there's...
I do get "hard limits" when there is literally nothing. I'm on the floor and I can't move. Not only due to exertion - I can be in bed, unable to...
Even referring to the patients as Mrs This and That seems old fashioned and inherently sexist. Makes me think of "women know your limits" from...
The SNP doesn't send anyone to the House of Lords as a matter of principle.
I'm so angry about journalists' failure to interrogate the Tory plan to take £12bn out of disability benefits to cut National Insurance payments....
I was recently thinking about a cat I had who was diagnosed with cat leukemia and eventually had to be put down. I'm very bad at remembering...
I think that, as you'd expect, there's a higher prevalence in health care and education. The (late) ME nurse Keith Anderson told me there was...
It looks like participants could receive a diagnosis through the study. Are there ethical considerations about that? I'd thought about taking...
I wonder if there's a creation of a spurious schism. Faction A - the current gaslighting model works fine, no need to reinvent the wheel Faction...
I haven't seen all the questions, but with so many you'd think they'd be able to have the granuality needed to capture pwME's lives, but it's all...
"Yes, but with adaptations (eg aids and equipment, help from another person, more slowly than a healthy person, or using methods that involve less...
I don't think there's a case that the genes predisposing towards ME would have been likely to be mostly eradicated. Since the prime age for onset...
"Avoiding adverse reactions". I think it's a big jump to say massage is safe for pwME. We know that in very severe ME any kind of touch can be...
I'm probably wrong, I haven't looked at the documents. Too overwhelmed. The announcements seem to be about replacing the all the income from PIP...
The minister (I've never seen him before) not getting it on severity. Starts saying some people with ME struggle with activities others take for...
I'm just so confused now. There's been so many consultations. This seems more about the Severe Disability Group, not about the...
"However, this finding is believed to be due to inappropriately planned or progressed exercise programs, possibly undertaken independently or...
Please remove this if it breaches the rules on political content. I've just seen MPs, including the Chancellor, on TV talking about taking part...
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