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Yes. In 2004 a WHO communication stated that if a country accepts the WHO Regulations concerning nomenclature (which the Uk does), then that country is obliged to accept the ICD classification. In NICE's own Communications Progress report of September 2002 Anne Toni Rodgers, then one of the...

I'm currently looking into this (have been for a while now), and it's way worse than people know. Thanks for reminding me of the Williams documents, they will be useful in showing how Wessely and White wrote about it in times beyond my research timeframe.

It's a sociological way to look at societies and make sense of them, not a term used for an individual about themselves. It's not about putting people in boxes, but about understanding dynamics from both a human and a societal perspective, and the effects of them. And in that the paper has a...

Perhaps. This happens a lot but in this case I'm not completely sure. I think the authors could have used a friend with a good grasp on ME history and -narrative who would have told them what's what, and a couple of others who helped them clean up the awful language they used. The person who...

It got a bit better as it got to the actual topic, but then my initial observation still stands. It also has quite a lot of problematic language (mostly due to following a psychiatry narrative). I would not recommend this paper to anyone, nor use it as a reference, unless it was while...

I'm halfway, but it's not an easy read. The language is so woolly I could almost knit a sweater out of it. So far some mention of a worthy topic (basically: building a sense of who you are and self-worth while being ill doesn't work like how it is for other people, and it's more difficult when...

Can they add an addendum or edit the text after publication? If so, I might contact the authors to point out the gross mistake. (If I think it's worth it after reading the rest of the aricle.)

I only read the first part when I came to such a whopper of an unruth that it shows clearly to me that the authors did not do their research, harming patients in the process. (Not sure if I should waste time on the rest because of that.) It might be well-meaning, but I think making such...

Here's the recruitment page: Moe na COVID-19? | Doe mee aan de ReCOVer studie They outright state: "We already know that chronic fatigue can succesfully be treated with cognitive behaviour therapy." To continue: "We wonder if cognitive behaviour therapy can also help prevent that fatigue after...

I think I've seen that film.

That would indeed be quite implausible to be helped with CBT...! I was speaking about what it was originally used/developed for. (Late 80's/early 90s)

How awful that your friend feels ashamed when it was sold to him as something that works. (And that he had a bad experience.) It's normal that he went along with it. Despite what is claimed, the patient-therapist relationship is an unequal one, which the therapist has to keep an eye on. You...

Originally CBT is a hardcore psychiatric treatment, used for things like severe depression, OCD, eating disorders, hypochondria/severe health anxiety, severe phobia's and sexual disorders. Not a low-treshold psychological method like a regular talking therapy. (And it's still strange to me that...

The previously working link on S4ME (same) wasn't working either. But this one does work: Projects - Pace Trial - Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine - Barts and The London (qmul.ac.uk) It has a similar but different URL

The link to the PACE trial manuals is not working.

I actually laughed out loud at it. It's like these guys' stamp of authenticity of their papers: you can't have one without it saying "more research is needed" at the end. It's indeed almost a self-parody. They're a bit like an Escher picture.

It's called the illusory truth effect, and together with Occam's Broom they made ample use of it. (The Oxford group spent 7 years promoting CBT for ME in books and at symposia before there even was a RCT published about it that claimed it worked.) They've never been great argumenters of their...

When they claimed this it was 14 years after the Helman paper (1992), when they had it published it was 17 years (1995). But it was still nonsense, there were antiviral therapies then. Sharpe himself wrote about acyclovir before this. This whole sentence is a sight of ridiculous...

Well, hello: After arguing (as far as I can tell with my mush brain atm very lamely, with use of....the PACE trial o_O) that trial results that use the Oxford criteria and others that do not require PEM are still applicable to ME/CFS, it says with a reference that according to the list was...

They know that people can read right? In 1992 Sharpe was very clear that patients had "muscle wasting, changes in cardiovascular response to exertion, depressed mood, postural hypotension and impaired thermoregulation." , which he calls an effect of inactivity, continuing that "These effects can...