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Thanks for mentioning this. I had wanted to bring it up myself but was worried it would sound like I am dismissing Jen's ME/CFS diagnosis. That's not my intention, I'm just curious if it is possible that her thyroid cancer was causing a paraneoplastic syndrome presenting with similar symptoms to...

Conference and Immersion Training Monday 29th April – Thursday 2nd May 2019, University of Derby Enterprise Centre, Central Derby, UK "Allan Abbass will elaborate and expand on the use of the graded format, working with Medically Unexplained Symptoms, and Personality Disorder."...

(Sorry if this has already been posted.) I wonder what training course this is? The poster appears to be an emergency department mental health lead.

Howard Schubiner, who is a founder of this organization, thinks CFS is a PPD. 'Our course teaches successful management of symptoms linked to psychosocial stress (Psychophysiologic Disorders or PPD)." https://ppdassociation.org/online-course https://ppdassociation.org/treatment-outline "C...

And there's an empire built around that word too - Howard Schubiner, thinks CFS is a Psychophysiologic Disorder (PPD.) He is a cofounder of the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association. More here...

Oh dear. Abbass is involved with Schubiner, who is mentioned in this thread; https://www.s4me.info/threads/this-...ted-with-mind-body-medicine.8087/#post-142985

An article from the American Psychological Association, that quotes Sharpe. (2013.) When symptoms are a mystery. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/symptoms "There has been an unfortunate split in our thinking between what's physical and what we think of as ‘real,' and what is mental, and...

(Sorry if this has already been posted.) A MUS conference; Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Somatic Symptom Disorder Improving the Primary Care Response Wednesday 3 July 2019 The Novotel Conference Centre, Bristol "Improve your understanding of the breadth and diversity of PPS and MUS...

The link is to an organisation that is holding the MINDD International Forum. Someone mentioned it earlier in the thread because Naviaux is going to it, not the Emerge conference.

Some insights from their page on CFS; "This may very well be a multifactorial pathologic entity with lifestyle and constitutional/psychological makeup contributing factors." And; Regular exercise is crucial to improving energy, at a level that is tolerated."...

Two of the authors have written about MUPS before. This study was published online in 2016. The resource utilisation of medically unexplained physical symptoms. Kimberley Lee, Malcolm H Johnson, [...], and Frederick Sundram "Excessively pursuing the possibility of a physical diagnosis serves...

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has a pain booklet (June 2018), specifically for ME/CFS patients. It says; "So why do some people with CFS and Fibromyalgia experience pain? It is potentially due to central sensitisation. According to the Institute for Chronic Pain...

I found this article written by him (NOT a recommendation); https://bodyinmind.org/in-the-mind-or-in-the-brain-central-sensitization-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/ Other ME/CFS articles on that site; https://bodyinmind.org/catastrophizing-depression-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/...

From Schubiner's bio; "He was awarded a multi-million dollar grant by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research studies of an emotional expression intervention for individuals with fibromyalgia, which is a form of PPD." From https://walrus-capybera-krkg.squarespace.com/about/...

There's a new film on the way about treating pain with mind-body medicine, (NOT a recommendation); "THIS MIGHT HURT is a feature-length documentary that explores the chronic pain epidemic by following a group of patients as they attempt a last-resort treatment called mind-body medicine."...

I posted this article on another thread. It says that a doctor may be able to see/hear that you have pulsatile tinnitus, by just putting a stethoscope to your ear, so they can hear it too. This guy was told repeatedly to just learn to live with it, until he found a doctor who was prepared to...

Like they seem to be suggesting in this paper? Depression and anxiety in patients receiving interferon-alpha - The role of illness perceptions. Hepgul N, et al. J Health Psychol. 2018. Authors Hepgul N1, Pariante CM1, Baraldi S1, Borsini A1, Bufalino C1, Russell A1, Agarwal K2, Cleare AJ1...

I do this all the time. It often takes me longer than it should to realise.

I was going to say that my blood runs out, but the problem is technically the opposite - it's a struggle to fill a tube. Especially difficult if more than one tube full is needed.

While not the Lightning Process, I saw this quote recently on the Optimum Health Clinic site. The OHC is, in my opinion, of a similar ilk. “After 10 years as a trustee of Action for ME, and after struggling to get clarity when I wrote a book on ME in the late nineties, I just wish that the...