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Here we go again.

"Pathology" seems to be a word with varied uses. Is it clear to anyone, possibly including himself, what Sharpe means? Is it the truism that when the cause of a symptom is unidentified, the symptom has no identified cause?

Is it making you cross?

Going back to that tweet by ManeeshJuneja it raises an interesting question. How could anybody imagine that such a condition could be caused by deconditioning , or perpetuated by a fear of exercise. It was always argued that those who suggested these things must have been seeing an entirely...

It does look as thoughthe condition being suffered by many of these people is exactly ME as originally described. This probably accounts for the confusion in some circles. It has nothing to do with CFS.

I'm not sure that that is a tenable argument without admission of errors over ME. He was prepared to defend Strauss against proper political questioning. If he was not "in the middle of nondescript symptoms " at the time he had no right to take the positions he did. The matter is easi;y...

I thought the link was supposed to be a perpetuating factor, not a triggering one. But they may be allowed to make ie up as they go on. Everyone else does. Didn't we encounter Segal before with the Lightning Process?

I have taken the liberty of copying the link to this article Autistic thinking in Medicine by a Dr Gordon Easton from 1974, as I am not on twitter and cannot comment there. It seems significant that views of this nature were published in World Medicine. It is hard to believe that the views...

It seems fairly clear as to which voices have the ear of whoever it might be.

Would there not need to be a prospective study before one could assert that FMD patients have a body-focused attentional bias? Has there ever been such a study?

Perhaps they intend that people with symptoms resembling ME fall outside the scope of this exercise on the basis that their symptoms are explained by an alternative diagnosis.

Do they not know that pathogenesis is unimportant? There must be many references to the fact in the literature from circa 1989. It is only the perpetuating factors which are of importance.

That seems to be the crux of the problem. There is a perception that the decision to keep "people alive" does not address the problem that that is a choice involving the deaths of others.

It is strange how remote the information on which researchers rely may be from the "reality" which it is supposed to represent. The patient experiences something, seeks to express that experience in words, the research assistant hears and interprets the words according to his or her own...

Perhaps it is Pervasive Refusal to record the answers Syndrome.

That was later, in 1990.

I am having to reappraise the SW story. He has always claimed that he was misuderstood, but for some reason, best known to himself, has never provided the evidence. There was always something not right about the story that SW emerged from nowhere to singlehandedly alter the course of the...

If we have been aware of this phenomenon in adults for a long time, it makes one wonder what the phenomenon Crawley sees in children might be.

The thing to remember is that within about six months of starting seeing "CFS" patients, he was suggesting as recommended reading the paper by Edwards which stated "You can cure your effort syndrome if you really want to". Is he just hopelessly naïve? It is hardly surprising that those who had...

Perhaps that is the real test. If you have sufficient energy and focus to comply with the expectations or demands, you don't have ME.