Search results

I do agree that there is a need for good psychiatric treatment. However it is also true (as far as I know) that while many psych conditions are later attributed to some other cause, there are no examples of other conditions being later proven to be psychiatric. Psychiatry has done a lot of...

Liked your post @Binkie4 - thank you for contacting them. Don't think much of the reply though. Also if their system is unmanned at weekends how come posts were being deleted I wonder? Best of luck with the root canal. :hug:

Job for the boys. Boys who are already proven adept at working to the preferred agenda. Realist.

i don't disagree with you @Sid, but I think both view points are valid. What about people whose agency is incorrectly removed by psychiatry? What about people forced to take medication whose side effects are worse than the symptoms of their condition? The fact that there are some good psychs...

Merryn 's family are amazing. Their quotes are always excellent and describe the disease so well. It most be so hard for them. Kudos too to the journalists and editors for some very good articles.

I am merely pointing out that the argument you used @James Morris-Lent could just as easily be used against us in our fight for the removal of CBT and GET from the official guidelines. We do not have the whole argument laid out in the individual article in question, but that doesn't mean the...

It certainly has a very poor track record in terms of: Diagnosis - vague. Seemingly no tests can be done. this has left it open to abuse historically by people trying to get non compliant family members, especially women, locked away. This has allowed serious mission creep as they try to...

I guess it would depend on whether there was an inquest or not. It would probably also depend on the coroner. Some being aware that ME is a physical, multi system disorder and so prepared to put that on the certificate. Perhaps others don't believe it is a real disease and therefore don't...

Are they? I agree that people growing up on the 60s, 70, and 80s may seem less emotive to the younger ones but it is not necessarily the case that they are out of tune with their thoughts and feelings. My friends and I talked about stuff, We listened to bands like Pink Floyd and discussed...

I agree that there is a place for mental health treatments and that there are cases where mental health professionals can be compassionate and do a world of good. However,the fields of psychiatry have a questionable past - many people being incarcerated for post natal depression and a range of...

In all likelihood we are a mixed patient group. The waters are so muddied that even if we assume CFS and ME are entirely different things, doctors have been using the terms interchangeably. So we might have ME patients diagnosed with CFS and CFS patients diagnosed with ME. While I am happy to...

Another really great article.

I've ended up selecting most of the options. It's easier for me to interact with people I know. As @Trish says 2 people can be easier than just one, but add in a 3rd and it's just too much stimulation. There are times when even communicating with my husband, who knows me better than anyone...

While it would be great to have an observer there, don't push yourself too hard @adambeyoncelowe. Sometimes, I think they do these things deliberately. Sometimes to demonstrate - "look you can do it if you only try" and at others just to make sure they weed out the very patients they are...

Plus what @Jonathan Edwards said. Maybe a few of us should respond to the email address given, explaining we are interested, but it would be impossible for us to cope with travel and attending a meeting of any length. We are concerned that anyone who is capable of such an outing will either be...

My worry is how likely your words are to be twisted. That said if we never speak up, we'll never be heard. It depends how they gather /record views. If you see a questionnaire prepare for everything you say to be twisted like a pretzel, in my experience at any rate. Is it worth contacting...

I think it's not always consciously done. Somebody might take certain actions thinking they understand the underlying mechanisms and therefore thenend result is x. But actually, their understanding is insufficient and not all the mechanisms they thought were implicated are and there may be...

Right. Now how many of us here would take an unknown pill regardless of the positive instructions? If someone was trying to get me to take something and being encouraging and cheering me on I would most likely suggest they take it themselves. ( Then I can observe closely)

It's the word recovery that's confused 'em. So many definitions to choose from.

I think he knows. Maybe not at the start, but at some point in his career it dawned on him. He won't admit it because he let it go for too long and it's become an integral part of his career. He can't see a way to admit it without damaging his career. He doesn't want to admit it because if...