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Have they suggested that normalisation of cortisol levels in the examples above will relieve the participants of having long covid? And what would normalisation look like vs what it is currently if they've only taken the above measures? Or would it make them more like the others with long covid...

It should, but I'm not sure that they are really getting it. What they describe as FND could be caused by prion mediated neuronal loss - how is that 'mind' now? Have these people lost the ability to follow logic, as well as science now? This is stupid. Take out the word 'functional' - which...

Here's one thing - if these individuals spending all their time creating a non-illness were in the workforce, or recruitment meant there weren't those who were trained and moved into this area in the first place - then that might be a help. I just find it astounding you've got staff struggling...

When I first heard of this type of thing (2011) it was very much emphasised that the term stress was being used for physical - in a 'load' sense, or 'exertion' (cumulative included) which did very much equate to ME (and wasn't someone saying it that way as a soft soak/con when they really meant...

Personally I do not think that you can measure cortisol in something like ME the way they assume they can for others - due to the exertion involved with just getting to the blood test. This needs to be something that is flagged to be borne in mind. The only thing I can really think of to get...

Agreed. Whilst you cannot predict luck on things like infections etc. I am absolutely sure that had I been in a medical system that had simply taken the condition seriously and a system that gave me rights I could depend on to ask and get reduced hours or adjustments re: physical things then my...

There are so many parasites (inadvertent by closing their eyes to the person they are determined they 'will do good for' whilst also changing their career or whatnot to something that works better for them)... I wonder if that is half the issue/people we are battling with now. It is so needed...

It's a difficult one. I get what you are saying in the context. You have to wonder whether they keep their harmful treatments because it keeps the funding coming in for the course whilst puts off anyone actually continuing with it. There needs to start being funds to ensure patients can (as you...

Why aren't they getting sued? I know you can't save these patients currently but by doing this you reduce the chances of science moving forward, and of said patients having dignity and getting the months before they can no longer function worked out so they can have peace going through that...

If that is what their observation saw then surely it blows out of the water their 'not hardware' nonsense as it would have been caused by the prions issue (nerve cells dying leaving the cortex like a sponge with holes in it from where this left gaps). They have their condition that proves them...

Is this trying to sell that misdiagnosing these serious illnesses into FND bucket is somehow a good thing? Or in their words 'essential'? Yet I've never read in any of the 'treatment for FND' papers that the most important thing is that they keep a close eye to see which ones have CJD which...

Hmm Zimbardo springs to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment - there might be certain questions about it years on but I don't believe anyone doubts the idea of this being the general gist of how you can pretty much set-up a situation that is bigger than the free-will...

hmm this is worse than I thought now I have finally managed to find the additional material which has the translation of the actual letter sent: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-022-04100-0#additional-information The first question after the quite assertive that...

"Methods Mailed and online survey with general practitioners (GP) in Germany using a cross-sectional representative sample from registries of statutory health insurance physicians. GPs estimated percentages of their patients who show the clinical symptoms of SSD according to DSM-5; that is, one...

"The philosophy SIG focuses on a central aim, which is to encourage philosophical thought and conceptual analysis amongst psychiatrists." Under development bullet: So I wondered what is values-based practice? From squirrelling round it seems that it is all about the 'compromise' idea, like...

"Health anxiety (sometimes called hypochondriasis) - where someone worries a lot that their symptoms mean they have a serious physical illness, despite reassurance that they are not physically ill." Which could be paraphrased as "when the patient doesn't trust their doctor's 'reassurance" -->...

good article

“The researchers couldn’t really split their data into a training data set (for developing the tool by machine learning) and a test data set for internal validation, because they didn’t have enough data. The tool was developed using data on the level of 91 different proteins, but for just 52...

Agreed. And that is a no-win situation. There is a big lack of the basic sheets to cover the different severities in specific terms. Given there are then no clinics with actual clinician level to do this for anyone either. It feels possible, and would be a massive difference for patients in...

Is it theoretically possibly by now then to basically take this and combine it with regular interval testing of the type in the just released LC-predicting study here...