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The sad truth is that this won't make any difference with the many physicians who asserted, as a matter of fact, that this was a guaranteed thing. There won't be any consequences for them, for making baseless claims, and neither for the people who mindlessly thought it was a good idea to just...

I can't find any actual definition of what they mean by "depressive symptoms". It seems they used something called the GDS-15, geriatric depression symptoms, which doesn't ask about symptoms. The only one that is even relevant to symptoms is asking about being "full of energy", but obviously a...

Oddly enough, when calibrating inadequate instruments with one another in haphazard fashion, the result is whatever. Basically comparing apples and bellows. This is obviously not a suitable test for brain fog, and only someone who knows nothing about brain fog would even consider otherwise.

Ugh. Nevermind, awful. Not sure why I expected otherwise. In hindsight, medicine being more accepting of mental illness may have been the worst thing to happen to mental health. What a mess of things they made. Although the fact that it was mostly accepted because of how easy it is to abuse...

There's a huge difference between accepting a situation that can't be changed, compared to a situation that is largely the outcome of awful decisions, especially where there are no technical reasons for failure, just human failure. There are incurable diseases, where the damage is done and...

Not even that. Not even vaguely, not even a little. The invention of CFS was explicitly to remove all connections to infectious diseases. It was dogmatic Truthiness that they are not related. Still mostly is. And this obsession again. It obviously cannot be related to "brain circuitry" or...

Uh, would you look at that, someone who can think about things rationally. Can't remember having seen this in the many years looking at research for mental illness in the physically ill. The choice of instruments, even poor ones, is a matter of judgment. There is no science that gives the right...

Heads up that I've been seeing several recent comments from long haulers that there has been an increase in social media posts trolling and denying Long Covid, harassing (actual harassment this time) some of the prominent ones. Not exactly ironically, aside from blaming vaccines, they are mostly...

Vice-president of the German parliament:

Maybe relevant to @dave30th given recent discussions you are having over the validity of FND and how some can't accept that it is conversion disorder by another name. It would be so useful to have this in one place, a single link that can be given to shut people when they argue that they're...

I think it's the same in France, but here in Quebec/French Canada ME is almost never used, always "fatigue chronique". Which is a terrible name since in French fatigue is commonly used to mean both normal sleepiness and everyday weariness. It frankly makes most discussions pointless, the meaning...

They can see the problem when they don't believe in the treatments. Even though the problem has nothing to do with the treatments, and everything to do with a process that allows any BS to be "shown" to "help". I wrote many times how I'm surprised that the alternative medicine industry do not...

Good catch, noticing how explanations, from the same people, switch back and forth being "ruled in" while also being made out of (poorly) ruling out other things. The lack of consistency alone should be grounds for major concerns, and yet it almost seems to be a feature. Remaining vague, even...

Fungible neurological disorder. It can mean anything and everything. And just as real and useful as NFTs.

One thing this tells us, arriving at it this quickly is not a coincidence, is that this is the product of training. Physicians are trained to do this. So it's pretty easy to see where it needs to be fixed: training people wrong is wrong in itself. But actually it shows intellectual bankruptcy...

Edit: moved from the Scandinavia thread, always confuse Netherlands and Denmark with which one is in Scandinavia... It appears that the ministry of health in the Netherlands is promoting herd immunity. It's really weird seeing what's happening in Scandinavian countries and how medical...

Health boards not publicising long Covid services, says expert https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-61787957 Prof Duncan said: "Staff in some health boards have said to us that they are purposely not publicising the pathway, because they fear that if they do, they will have so many referrals...

Was it in PACE that they basically wrote somewhere that patients were active enough anyway so it wouldn't say much? I'm probably thinking of someone who was commenting on it but it was pretty revealing. The entire basis of deconditioning is extensive bed rest and I don't think anyone enrolled in...

Study is out. Full title: Autonomic dysfunction in non-critically ill COVID-19 patients during the acute phase of disease: an observational, cross-sectional study Authors: Irene Scala, Simone Bellavia, Marco Luigetti, Valerio Brunetti, Aldobrando Broccolini, Maurizio Gabrielli, Lorenzo Zileri...

Just an endless nightmare where people believe they're helping while they're just screwing everyone. Giving the illusion that there are treatments, just because there is a huge business pushing useless treatments. https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/test-and-trace/after-care/long-covid/...