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A man with your surname could not think otherwise.

Because the BPS approach to ME, fibro etc. is that the conditions are not of physical aetiology so when we say mind can't cure cancer, they will answer that MUPS and cancer are different since they are committed to the idea that mind can create e.g. ME or fibro consistent symptoms but not e.g...

Sorry I can't do the quotes so I will answer in ablock,. Apologies. Our thoughts and emotions etc feed back onto some of our bodily functions. What I refer to as "mind" does not simply arise from bodily function but influences it in turn. This does not imply separation but contradicts identity...

Sorry Jonathan, I wrote a considered response (imo) but I wiped it by poor keyboard technique. Reprising as best I can: I would prefer "input" to "component". Dopamine or other imbalance may be the main input i.e. treatable proximate cause in a case of psychosis, but thinking you're Ivan the...

Your point is forcefully expressed and I would think many on here sympathise with that force of feeling. I take a different view 1) Your own description of the mind as an abstract construct referring to some of the products of bodily function makes a definition of the mind as the same as the...

Once you start with a definition of ME which excludes actual biophysical aetiology (ongoing) , everything we say about this or that not addressing physical illness is irrelevant. They are in camp Sharpe - illness without disease. Physical illness as symptoms but not of physical cause. We can't...

What is need is the acceptance, as with e.g. depression , that different approaches suit different people. Talking for one, psych pills for another, both for many, aspirin. But because such an acceptance is seen as part and parcel of unhelpful thinking by the fundies of various processes, they...

This is the whole thing. He cannot any longer be objective about his condition because objectivity would threaten his own recovery. It's part of the deal that he doesn't listen to those who have not recovered and the identification of post covid/ME/CFS with "that which the process addresses"...

All I can say is I believe I am better for taking low risk chances and I know others too. In at least one case the weight of reasonable evidence has moved in the direction of the helpful Dr being on the right track. My term "gamblers" is not the best. I am not convinced BPS conduct honest trials...

As a patient I have been happy for certain biophysical doctors to take action on the basis of evidence which other doctors would have dismissed as "no evidence". The quality of clinical care imo may be better where a doctor is willing to take a punt on a treatment where evidence of cause is...

We need some latitude on evidence because it happens many times that a condition is real and biophysical but is dismissed or psychologised for lack of biophysical evidence, at a current time, differences in approaches in different countries, or poor medical practice. As imo point 6 is fair. I...

Yes, and it is pretty evident in both LP and RT writings that HPA axis and specifically sympathetic overdrive (SO) is what they are on about. But they presume SO is present and equate SO and symptoms precipitated by it with ME. They assert quite different origins for SO - subconscious reaction...

You'd get the brush off from many of their advocates and enthusiasts.: 1) Definitions By the admittance of some of their practitioners, they cannot treat somatic illness e.g. a virus. They define, or at least assertively describe "ME" in a certain way, and a virus or other somatic illness is...

Merged thread Covid linked to risk of mental illness and brain disorder, study suggests | Coronavirus | The Guardian I haven't seen the paper but immediately ask who diagnosed the mental health difficulties and whether any diagnoses were achieved by labelling presence of "functional" physical...

I am concerned about the potential of the PTSD angle. Not in as far as it might examine purely psychiatric symptoms but because of the risk that physical symptoms arising from unexplained pathways may be put down arbritrarily to PTSD as a psychiatric phenomenon. The next move might well be "Our...

1) Lyme is known as a cause of actual encephalomyelitis and myalgia. 2) In the old days CFS sufferers were said to want CFS/ME, or ME diagnosis in order to avoid diagnosis and stigma of mental illness. We were afraid of "stigma". What we were really afraid of was inappropriate treatment. CFS/ME...

If Me is as you describe, that does no an any imply that there are not sufferers from long term infections who may overlap considerably with ME. Lyme may be such an infection in which case post Lyme might on your definition be called (an) ME and ongoing Lyme - Lyme. The issue of who has what...

Psychocentral cases. Plus those on the way to remission in need of a push and those in the overlap. Theoretically maybe some with a virus who are so distraught that their immune system will not deal with the virus so they an never remit. Gupta would probably point up all manner of Pavlovian...

Seconded. Plus should we be seeking diagnostic or informative testing (lupus is (often) diagnosed by test panels). IS atest invalid just because it is not diagnostic? Can we see Mc's claims as to integrity of his procedues taken seriously (incl possibility of refutation, of course). Is it good...

My hope is that all is not lost in this matter. It may be that some practitioners rather than My/Mc presented/used this test as diagnostic. Did you improve clinically after removal of nightshades? I certainly recall mitochondrial dysfunction as attested in this test as being linked to...