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Oversensitive and overreactive: what is nervous system dysregulation and how can it be resolved? The idea of nervous system regulation may be perplexing, but can it help with our mysterious and stubborn health problems...

Horton's Lancet couldn't possibly be saying that something that affects women is overmedicalized, could it?

Introduction to a series of articles in Lancet. Unsigned editorial. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00462-8/fulltext For most women, menopause is a natural phase of life that they transition as part of biological ageing. However, as highlighted in a Series of...

Yes, and the weird connections that continue to exist between the Furedi 'entryists' (Foxes, SMC, SaS) and between them and off-the-wall extreme right (Spiked and Young).

Young completely jumped the shark during Covid pushing all sorts of nonsense including anti-vaxxer stuff.

I love that the latest MP, 2023, was awarded to Canadian scientist Nancy Olivieri for "her communication of the importance of being open with patients about medical research".

And can't help themselves: But even outside the courtroom, an adversarial atmosphere can pervade many areas where diagnosis is contested leading to self-diagnosis. For some, the primary attribute of the condition encapsulated in the neurological-sounding diagnostic labels myalgic...

Dangers of self-diagnosis in neuropsychiatry Anthony S. David and Quinton Deeley https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/dangers-of-selfdiagnosis-in-neuropsychiatry/51029ED3B71CA62FC1085EC4A5B2E139 No abstract. Conclusions Like any significant intervention...

Thank you for all your great work on this Rob, and for the excellent idea in the first place. It's a pity the nomination wasn't successful, but it was very much worth the effort to try and in my opinion the wrong decision by TCD. In my view it would have been a well-deserved award.

I've discussed this with Jeremy and we thought we'd use #LivesUnlived as a hashtag for this project.

If anyone is interested. This is the kind of thing Jeremy is doing.

Thanks, Jo.

Just bumping up this thread on the project by Jeremy, who is a member here but I can't find his @ to tag him. Jeremy came to my house about 18 months ago at the start of the project. He is a film-maker with his own company. He also has ME. Over this time he has been travelling around the...

I suggest this aware that it's work for someone else, but is it worth a letter* to MEA setting out major points made in this thread? ETA: *ie email

There are their social media accounts. On Twitter: @channel4news @krishgm @JaneDodgeC4

Paragraph in a diary column by Martin Samuel in Times today. From https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/this-phobia-made-me-eye-roll-but-now-i-see-the-light-qjxrg9fh6

Yes, Times article online now. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dragons-den-criticised-for-claim-that-ear-seeds-can-cure-me-x27f3wqht

I'm not sure what the normal process is. It may well be that researchers regularly invite applicants, but Boxer does say she was asked if she wanted to pitch. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68028447

Hehe. Definitely.

Thanks to WAMES, Welsh Association of ME & CFS Support/Cymdeithas Cefnogi ME a CFS Cymru, for signing the letter.