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I agree that ME/CFS is inherently neither progressive nor fatal, if it is not mismanaged. And there's the rub.

Good start.

Look upon ye mighty works, O Psychosomatic Gurus, and its drearily predictable and appallingly cruel consequences for millions of sick, vulnerable, innocent patients. This is entirely your doing. You are the original cause of this catastrophe, and the ongoing roadblock preventing the urgent...

This. Psychosomatics, at least in its current form, has become a clear and present danger to all patients, and the entire health system. I wish I could get the rest of the health system to understand how much damage this crap is doing to their capacity to diagnose and treat promptly and...

https://thesicktimes.org/2024/09/27...ence-claims-in-their-intramural-me-cfs-paper/ Excellent article. Thanks, John. :thumbup:

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And they think we are the ones suffering from culturally generated perceptive disorders? They are lack of self-awareness personified.

It is important to protect oneself against blocked chimneys.

It is clear that a large chunk of the medical profession don't have a freaking clue about how much this FND lark is going to cost their reputations when the shit inevitably hits the fan.

Structural brain MRI features of patients with mixed FND were distinguishable from both healthy and psychiatric control participants, with subtype analyses showing high specificity (0.83) in accurately classifying individuals with functional motor disorder versus healthy controls. Again, if it...

Effective interview. I agree. It is important to keep the focus of criticism on the psychosomatic wing of the psych professions. Our argument is not with psych in general, and never has been. It is with the psychosomatic wing and their methodologically and ethically bankrupt claims. (Of...

I regard terms like multi-disciplinary, multi-organ, multi-modal, complex, etc, as red flags about the profession's ignorance and lack of interest in admitting it.

This.

That is interesting.

That is my view of what they are doing, and it is appalling beyond words. To the extent they can be called experts at anything it is at exploiting popular prejudices and bigotries, and the myriad flaws within governance and quality control processes. And they really are some of the very best...

Was it clinically significant? Or neither? 40/51 is at least most studies, if not the overwhelming majority.

In other words, it is not 'functional'.

Peer-review in psychosomatics is clearly fundamentally broken, and is clearly not going to be fixed by the current generation in that field. It is going to require an external intervention imposing adequate standards on them, and monitoring them for some time to ensure they comply.

Exactly. Very pleased and grateful you chose to stay here and keep contributing your invaluable insight and experience. :thumbsup: I would call that realistic, based on very hard earned lessons. The persistent failure to account for (actual) context by the psychosomatic club, including their...

@bobbler Prof. Ian Hickie is one of the mental health gurus here in Australia, and is most definitely not a friend to the ME/CFS community, and anything he is involved with is automatically suspect.