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Toward the emancipation of “medically unexplained” and energy-limiting conditions: Contesting and reimagining psy through the lens of feminist disability studies Joanne Hunt Abstract Indictment of hegemonic psy construction of the “ideal” subject, and its marginalisation of the Other, is common...

That reminds me of a study they did, I think it was back in the 90s, on personality types. They concluded that it mainly affected type-a characters and also mainly affected underachievers. But also actually there was no evidence it affected any personality type in particular. Or something like...

Yes, I was really disappointed in that. Almost texted to say how much I disagree. There is no link to personality type. It is not about being 'people pleasers'.

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It took my savings and 14 years — but I’m about to beat arthritis After Simon Westbrook was laid off by Pfizer he spent his redundancy money turning an idea on a piece of paper into a clinical triumph. It could be on the NHS in three years Glen Keogh Westbrook, who moved from Melbourne to study...

That's great. Thank you. In fact someone asked me a similar question the other day and I gave a similar answer. I'm going to email him. It will presumably go to his office so no idea whether it will even get to him. And of course I don't know whether he'll be interested. I hadn't thought of...

I mentioned in another thread that someone I was good friends with at university is now in the HoL. I'm minded to send him an email about the possibility of joining the ME APPG, but I want to send him some reasons for doing so. I know APPGs aren't for a purpose, but I want to give him an...

This is about the founder of #ThereForME in The Times (London) today, by the Health Editor Eleanor Hayward, prompted by Maeve's inquest. My husband is bedbound with ME at 37. I grieve for the life we had Karen Hargrave is campaigning for better care for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis...

Decent response though. Haven't come across Benjamin Sermon before. Anyone know (of) him?

Danger in going off topic here, but it occurs to me I used to know very well someone who is now in the HoL. Haven't had any contact since going to the Motor Show in 1986. Is the APPG a lot of work? Is it important? Does it actually achieve anything? I could think about contacting him to see if...

I wonder if this is Jim White, consultant clinical psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society, who flogs 'evidenced-based' stress control. https://stresscontrol.org/ Face your fears; be more active; boost your wellbeing

Very strange letter in The Times this morning from Miles H Beaman Professor of infectious disease and pathology Perth, Western Australia This post has been copied and subsequent disease naming discussion moved to this thread...

Copied post Very strange letter in The Times this morning from Miles H Beaman Professor of infectious disease and pathology Perth, Western Australia

Yes, I thought it was a bit confused as well.

Merged thread The Times (London): Half a million Americans say they have Lyme disease. Do they?, 2024, Bevan Hurley Half a million Americans say they have Lyme disease. Do they? It is dismissed as the ‘yuppie virus’ and doctors warn false diagnoses can be fatal. But a slew of celebrity cases...

COVID-19 and cognitive impairment: From evidence to SARS-CoV-2 mechanism Haodong Pan, Jingyan Niu, Lin Feng, Yue Yin, Chun Dang, Yaoheng Lu, Lei Li, Jianguang Ji, Kuikun Yang, Lihua Wang, Qian Li Abstract Caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), coronavirus...

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Another article in The Times ‘My child died of ME’: a scandal waiting for its Post Office moment By Sean O'Neill https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/my-child-died-of-me-a-scandal-waiting-for-its-post-office-moment-9n7st3zz2 https://archive.ph/2PV9g

This town had a healthy population. Then the bitcoin mine started humming They are not the only ones in Granbury, a town of 10,000 near Dallas. There have been about 100 cases of mysterious ill health in the community over the past year or so, locals say. The culprit, Lakey and his neighbours...

Association of Changes in C-Reactive Protein Level Trajectories Through Early Adulthood With Cognitive Function at Midlife Amber L. Bahorik, PhD, Tina D. Hoang, MSPH, David R. Jacobs, PhD, Deborah A. Levine, MD, MPH, and Kristine Yaffe, MD Abstract Background and Objectives Late-life...