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I like the "Have you had ... " in the question, because I'm back to being able to drink now, but stopped in the first few years of ME. My main symptom when ME hit was headaches, so I would do anything to reduce their number. In my early ME years I went to a christmas party with colleagues...

Don't think so.

I don't know.

Hopefully this service won't be like the Isle of Wight ferry.

It's often individual healthcare staff abusing their position to foist their personal beliefs on a captive audience. It's rampant in Germany too, I've had it from doctors (offering to dangle a pendulum to diagnose my son's allergy) and physiotherapists (insisting on twiddling my toes, her own...

Completely agree about economics. I'd be happy to add history and political studies to that too. On a more individual level, one problem is that more intelligent people are better at finding reasons to cling on to illusory ideas. Heaven forfend that they should ever be in charge of anything.

What a marvellous way to start a letter.

Hmm. I don't think the information or understanding have to be complete, it's more of a spectrum with ME at the "shocking paucity of information and understanding" end. But we can't say that anyone who has to make a decision in the face of incomplete information and uncertainty would lack mental...

I spent a while wondering why you had a personal assistant, and whether I had missed the fact that you were a high-flying CEO.

When all this woo doesn't work she'll face the difficult choice of admitting it or keeping quiet about / denying it. Not the first woo-merchant to face that choice. Almost feel sorry for her.

You should be feeling better now.

A Vikings star quoting Spiderman. Has it come to this?

You have fallen in love with a Dalek?

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If the NHS wants to offer weight loss jabs to the overweight, that's one issue. But why only to the unemployed? What if I'm employed and I'd like one but it's not on offer to me? It might lead to me feeling a tad resentful. What if I'm unemployed and refuse one? Will I be sanctioned or...

Money won't allow you to recover, but it will allow you to pace as efficiently as possible, and to attain as good a quality of life as possible. I'm also not sure we can assume that there's a correlation between wealth and susceptibility to quackery.

Haven't got the energy to read all of this thread at the moment. But getting horizontal is my first port of call. If I start going downhill I absolutely have to get horizontal asap, and if I can't, things just get worse and worse until I can. If I'm lucky I'll start feeling better and can try...

Well I'm sure she's a compassionate and sincere person, but so what? She's spreading harmful misinformation. In my 10 years of ME I can't help noticing that well-meaning celebrities tend to end up being a pain in the ... , especially if they are in the entertainment business. Sports people with...

Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now