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I just saw the word "SCare" in the title and wondered what on earth was going on.

Well that was brilliant. I gave up on Jan Böhmermann a while ago because he seemed to be running out of ideas, but when he's good he's very good. Germany is full of Wesselys, which is why I have been hiding from the health service for about 8 years now. These satirical news shows all watch each...

I'm not sure I trust her, her opponents, or personality testing in general. At first glance it looks like a turf war about the right to psychobabble on a dodgy subject, with both sides playing the victim. Free entertainment for the rest of us if it keeps them busy and away from harming everyone...

Send in the clowns.

Why don't they just write "For novelty purposes only".

Type A personality innit.

I voted on the basis of this.

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An article on this subject from the Law Society Gazette...

I do not.

Why is the phrase "exercise-based treatments" linked to the word "progress" in this sentence? The implication in "unless the person feels ready to progress" is that it is normal for PWME not to exercise and not to want to progress. How can they even use the phrase "exercise-based treatments" -...

Not quite sure why the deliberate / fuck up distinction matters much. Whichever it is, they are in the way. They are not helping. They are perpetuating harm. Even if they are just incompetently fucking up over and over again whilst clinging to their delusional ideology, they are not open to...

Well I've just noticed that I spelt "undeserving" wrong in my post, which will teach me to go correcting other people :)

Typo in the heading surely? "under deserved" should be "under served"? Perhaps someone got confused with "underserving"? Not Freud's biggest fan, but there's an interesting slip, if it was one.

Or based on how to give presentations. Lecture notes, a page of 9 bullet points, beamed up to the audience? Sorry, but I spent 9 years teaching and examining presentation skills, and that's a fail. Can't these people be bothered to learn how to do anything properly?

Very disappointed to discover that Tim Harford has given psychogenic blah blah a free pass and Robert E. Bartholomew's book an uncritical recommendation. Listening to Tim Harford explaining psychogenic illness it could be Wessely or Sharpe talking...

Dammit. I wrote the above after reading the first half of part 1. I have been completely hornswaggled.

That was a very interesting read. I've always drunk a lot of water, not because I'm thirsty, but because it's supposed to be good for you. This might explain why something salty makes me feel so much better - I've been diluting the sodium in my blood too much? I shall experiment.

I missed the first quote mark too and was surprised and impressed by "both a scientist and a patient", wondering how @Andy had modestly kept his career as a scientist under his hat for so long.

Might I suggest an improvement: Fatigue After Critical ILlnEss (FACILE)