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The critical letter by CBT prof. Lisbeth Utens has been published. Submitted letter Elisabeth Utens:

I think it's mostly to show how many people feel there is the need for specialized outpatient clinics. Hoping the politicians will vote in favor of them. I surely hope they will. (and that the BPS crowd stays the hell away).

Full article. It's all Fukuda and Oxford studies. Their findings mean nothing.

Thanks dit sharing the bits from the paper. It's what I suspected. It's obviously not as harmful as CFS PACE CBT. For some it might be helpful in regards of coping but other than that it seems they're also overstating what it can achieve. I guess it could be a lot worse...

"At baseline, patients were advised to be physically active at as high an intensity level as possible and gradually return to usual sports activities." Yikes, no wonder...

Hm. Nice try I guess. Curious about the paper though.

It was yes. I put a link in the description.

The pediatrician is Suzanne Terheggen-Lagro at the AMC and the medical psychologist is Kim Oostrom. English subtitles.

Besides the reference to the Daniels paper, this seems to be quite helpful. There were some other things but overall not bad at all. Great to see more papers on psychological support and pacing.

They are already studying people with mild/moderate ME and are planning to hopefully study people with severe ME as well.

Not very impressive results.

Fantastic to see it finally published. Still have to read it later. Note that they're researching the same in people with ME as we speak.

I left a comment on LinkedIn about it. Let's see what the lead author has to say about that graded exercise therapy bit...

From the poster. They're most probably not referring to the NICE guidelines:

Did they mention somewhere that they applied for funding?

Thanks. I'll post my response here as well. It's quite something that she admits the emotional harm her work caused. Unfortunately she only says that it doesn't work for some, but fails to mention that many have deteriorated due to her treatments. She keeps promoting CBT as if nothing has...

Thanks. I was about to share it here. It's quite something that she admits the emotional harm her work caused. Unfortunately she only says that it doesn't work for some, but fails to mention that many have deteriorated due to her treatments. She keeps promoting CBT as if nothing has happened, so...

"psycho-pathophysiological model" Sigh.