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Or what we measure via "intelligence tests" isn't intelligence at all... I am reminded of the book "Thinking fast, Thinking slow" about the fast reptilian part of the brain (e.g. intuition, feelings) and the slow part, the neocortex (logic, ratio...). Maybe one part of intelligence is how well...

That's it. When I started having tinnitus (at a young age) I was shocked and concentrated on it. I had problems with sleeping. So I decided to ignore it. If you can't ignore it, listen to something else (music, a breeze, birds,...). I can imagine there is tinnitus so severe you can't ignore...

Ah, thank you, obviously I misunderstood that. Indeed an interesting question. How is the GET training plan exactly? Intuitively, I don't think one will gain considerable muscle mass with GET. According endurance, I would expect at least some improvement. But it depends on the GET plan. In...

Not uncommon in the psychology field to cherry pick, as I've heard.

Yes, this is true for me, too. Good point! Edit: After stretching and so on...walking increases stiffness in my case.

Well, I would like to live in Norway, but I don't have much to offer...Beautiful country and I hear people are nice.

Is that a rhetoric question @Woolie, or in earnest? (Sorry I don't get it.) In order to increase fitness/load you need to put in recovery. So you can't just increase the volume from day to day, but you need adequate (active/passive) recovery time. After non-strenuous training one can train...

I'm not so sure if kd is a patient who profited from GET/CBT... See the "special wording". But he/she is definitely a fan.

This can only answer the "logic" of the market I fear.

I never That might be it... What's the logic here? Because maybe people with cancer don't have to band together, because maybe people with cancer are taken seriously? It isn't. It always was there, you just didn't see. Today people speak up, that's the difference. You just didn't care to...

So Mr. Sharpe isn't very honest today. Indeed, they propagated that CBT/GET are treatments for CFS and ME - however the illness is defined, in fact. Today, he peddals back; now he says only for those whose main symptom is "fatigue" (as we know, even that isn't correct), and he differentiates...

Thank you @dave30th, that was helpful.

What's he doing? This gets strange and stranger. Maybe someone is paid to post under Sharpe's name? Or has Mr. Sharpe retired and that's why he has so much time for this? It puzzles me. It seems he's always starting similarly: "Yeah really? Did you read the paper?" What's his agenda?

Yes @Wonko, you say it.

...someone who loves power and influence over others and fears to loose it...

If I understand it correctly - also taking @Jonathan Edwards's post into account - their primary goal was to study "fatigue" (however defined...) in a symptom cluster called "CFS", which they defined via the Oxford criteria. Some of those (per chance?) also fulfilled other criteria, their own...

This is such a huge change!

I'd like to cite @Jonathan Edwards here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/chronic-pain-often-has-no-physical-cause-psychotherapy-can-reduce-the-suffering.4176/#post-72812 I know "Ye shall not"...but I really wish people who dismiss pain as "psychogenic" would have it. And I'll want them to know...

Thank you @Robert 1973, I think it is great that SMC changed its "factsheet"! Very important.

I have joint pain, too, but sometimes I don't know whether some of it is due to scoliosis because there is a preferred side. I get swollen fingers when I go for a walk (worse when it's warm or hot). This is hurtful. I don't think this is of rheumatoid nature. A doctor once told me this could...