Thanks to those who continued to patiently explain things after I logged off last night.
I've no doubt that Alastiar's experience, gleaned as it is from highly constrained 15 minute consultations with a selected subset of patients, is...
I love that use of the term "pre-disposing illness". Just to leave no doubt he thinks that your psychological freak-out about exercise is only...
I must go now, @petrichor, thanks for the discussion. If there's anything else you'd like to add in the discussion or if you have any questions...
Its not easy to pick it all apart, I know. The whole thing is further complicated by the doublespeak people use in the area. Researchers will say...
F****adoodledoo!
A lot of sociology around this area is much more assumption free. They don't make any stand on what the truth is around causation, they just...
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:!!! LOVE it when people support their statements by mentioning some other person who believes as they do. "Alien...
Yea, wot @Esther12 said. Pacing and GET are mutually exclusive approaches, based on entirely different illness models. Pacing involves discovering...
Now, look at the text you've just quoted. What is it saying? That in addition to the CBT I described above, they also encouraged people to improve...
Arghhh!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad: You must have been ready to explode!
That's was a really useful post in increasing my understanding, @Jonathan Edwards. I guess that's what was running through mu mind about dual...
Interesting find. I'm hoping the slightly different spelling means its not the same person: I suppose if it is, then she changed her mind....
Actually, the study itself (link here) provides some contradictory information about their approach, and I would recommend extreme caution in...
One for those who enjoy being wound up by this stuff. The main example they discuss is fibro, not ME, but that's unlikely to reduce your outrage....
In what way, @Invisible Woman? Can you give me some real life scenarios that have stumped you when you've had PEM?
I wonder why the CBTs are thinking so catastrophically about menopause's effect on the workplace. Lots of overly negative thoughts there. Perhaps...
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Good suggestions, @Peter Trewhitt. I'm not sure about visual processing, spatial memory or short-term verbal memory - are these major features of...
I've been watching Future Man, and I just learned you can shove cocaine up there too. Maybe coffee is a gateway drug...
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