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This woman's story actually appears to follow a very similar time frame to my first bout and there is overlap of some of our experiences. I went for acupuncture at the insistence of my family but other than having a nice lie down I experienced nothing. I then gradually improved over the next 2...

Ditto

The vast majority of the positive comments are from accounts with zero activity which is a bit suspicious.

It's at about 1:50 as part of the new preface to the podcast.

I agree but maybe there is a tiny sliver of hope that they might question what they are spoon-fed by the SMC et al next time. Given the author of the podcast is the science editor, they can't claim they didn't know there had been problems before. I think this is also a glimmer of light in that...

I often think of The Secret Garden in that context now. The logical part of my brain would hope people could separate outdated and misplaced ideas of disease and recovery but unfortunately what you say @Trish probably has some truth to it. It must have been a much more terrifying world as a...

Maximus do the work capability assessment tests for ESA...

Wow, snark much Prof? Good to see he is maintaining the level of professionalism on social media that he himself wishes to receive. What a flipping hypocrite (and I don't really mean flipping!) edited for spelling

Brilliant spot @Trish

Hope this isn't off topic but my recent experience definitely refutes this. I know we all know already it was nonsense from the outset! Over the last month or so there has been a definite upswing in my health, (which weirdly is following a similar time frame to my previous milder illness). As...

Don't let your intelligence fool you into thinking this system is manageable - it defies all logic! I can't say for certain because I am in a different situation to you in that I claim UC in the support group due to my complete inability to work but I think the limited capacity group would need...

That recent, awful account of the boy that sacrificed almost his entire cognitive/speech/mental abilities whilst undergoing GET is a terrifying continuation of this sort of twisted attitude. It doesn't bear thinking about that there are people who will be OK with this approach. I know they are...

Presumably they reached an agreement; either the authors or Cochrane gave some ground...

Thank you for this, it's well written and easy to understand. I am very defensive about KK because of the way she behaved over her David Tuller 'investigation' and other M.E. related articles. If she'd have included information like that in your link it would have been helpful, just laying out...

That's not why I found the article interesting. More that it's another situation where Kate Kelland appears to have been a journalist for hire without making it clear that that is what she is doing. Who the company is or what they are promoting isn't my point. I personally think that in the...

This opinion piece is very interesting because of the players mentioned; an old friend from Reuters crops up and also a new friend who we discovered in the last week or so: the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) who were behind the doxxing article which mentioned Michael Sharpe. I...

The interview is in podcast form, I've listened to it so you don't have to! There is absolutely no mention of ME/CFS in this interview; I tried to take rough notes as I went along. It's definitely suggesting more of a philosophical approach to the subject of psychomatic medicine in this special...

Please do, would anything from your Grand Rounds yesterday be appropriate to include? Your previously stated views on CBT for ME being morally/ethically wrong would be a good rebuttal to this.

Spot on

The most ironic/passive-aggressive use of kind regards I've ever seen!