Spot on. You know when someone's 'nailed it', because after you've read it then the whole matter seems like it has always been obvious - do we...
Hang on at £1.1m for research staff costs, if it really was 12 staff that would average £100,000 cost per person. How many years was this mostly...
I think it would be useful to have someone expert enough in actual clinical psychology actually do the maths on this to get a way forward on this....
Sorry Kitty I apologise I've caused a bit of a mess here as I edited that post when it must have not refreshed (so thought it had no likes etc) -...
I often think we need to start having some memes from disability charities where someone is in a job interview being asked a question like 'but...
Your check personally? I'm sorry I don't know what these drugs are, are they ME-related and so they just took it out assuming you might ask for it?
That's unbelievably divisive and stupid on the logic front. I can see why she is loving her character, it provides her a wonderful excuse to write...
This is all so poisonous. Evidence the BPS paradigm caused abuse then. As well as harm instead of 'help'. Basically these therapists were asked to...
I get it - the bigger issue is open information where such things have been taken and by whom, trials focus on homogenous somewhat and if you were...
Agreed. At least using brainwashing makes people ask 'in what' and think that could be negative as well as anything else and puts the focus...
I got the impression that in the UK it was always minimised compared to US (just based on media, films etc)
Sadly I think - but it should only be with the right people - we will get volunteers because I was pushed beyond this every day for so many years...
or life experience of people who have been ill (but then maybe that helps them to be good at believing in it)
I think* phototherapy + other things but those hadn’t worked until that was added (a certain type of antibiotic long term + short term steroids)...
I'm assuming this goes through the normal PhD process. This means that one has their Viva (oral interview) and then makes the amends that they are...
I recognise 2 of them as being 'regulars'
I guess I didn’t spot this as such a move forward so it’s interesting to have this pointed out. I do think that if they mean it regarding PEM then...
Agree with everything that you have said. And very much how contextualised this needs to be to imagining what this author would have been sat in...
That the Ombudsman wasn't swayed by what I assume might be the usual excuses re: what were misdiagnoses/fob offs and said this would have caused...
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