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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    It was always going to go down this route. Keeps reputations and careers intact .
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    United Kingdom: Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group News

    What a great idea and great content - I hope it's a huge success for you.
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    :banghead:
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    UK: Physios for ME

    Great blog pieces and kudos to the authors. I have posted on members only thread as this generalisation sadly does not reflect potential provision outwith England.
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    Cochrane Review: Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults, 2020, C De C Williams et al

    If you have not experienced / been close to someone with chronic pain, appreciation and empathy seem.to be difficult. My friend's daughter has scoliosis. It took over a year for her to be diagnosed; as a teenager pain was attributed to other things ( too heavy school bag etc... it took almost...
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    Cochrane Review: Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults, 2020, C De C Williams et al

    Thank you
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    CBT for CFS Therapist Manual PAEDIATRIC CFS TEAM, ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL, BATH, UK Loades, M.E. & Starbuck, J. | 2020

    Nothing like a SMART target then? The exasperation is that this continues , CF conflation causes real harm, and mental health impacts that were avoidable are built in. Harm has many manifestations - to have this foisted on you at a young age has potentially serious repercussions throughout...
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    Behavioural modification interventions for medically unexplained symptoms in primary care: systematic reviews & economic evaluation, 2020, White et al

    Exactly this - we are always told that CBT/GET dosn't work when experts do not deliver it The king is dead .......
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    How common are depression and anxiety in adolescents with CFS and how should we screen for these mental health co-morbidities, 2020, Loades et al

    Sadly, they have boxed themselves in so much with their own constructs that brains only operate in narrowly defined ways. A study in itself.
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    Feasibility of group-based acceptance & commitment therapy for adolescents (AHEAD) w/multiple functional somatic syndromes, 2020,Hansen Kallesøe et al

    Sadly ACT is the new buzzword. Add to ACES and adolescence has got even less going for it. There never seems to be understanding of asymmetrical power balances / influence of peers/ impact of being held responsible for your illness. Coming to a therapist near you.
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    How common are depression and anxiety in adolescents with CFS and how should we screen for these mental health co-morbidities, 2020, Loades et al

    Studies of other adolescent groups with chronic illnesses - how do these compare? To have your life put on hold before your identity is fully developed is a hard situation to cope with. To have a chronic illness that is so poorly understood , and be gaslit adds another level. I am always...
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    The biology of coronavirus COVID-19 - including research and treatments

    I think finland have trained dogs.
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    The Role of Iron Metabolism in Fatigue, Depression, and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis Patients, 2020, Knyszyńska et al

    And sadly ferritin is like tsh. Can be dangerously low but nothing recommended until acute .
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    POLL: physical vs cognitive PEM - same or different?

    I think this would be a really useful thread/ discussion for COVID longhaulers too. Contrasts and commonalities would be interesting .
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    News about Long Covid including its relationship to ME/CFS 2020 to 2021

    Critical mass of medical staff affected seems to be achieved to sway perceptions
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    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for chronic fatigue and CFS: outcomes from a specialist clinic in the UK (2020) Adamson, Wessely, Chalder

    The scale is weird , but perhaps unsurprisingly so Given the choice I suspect many more would enter " a little worse" making the intervention seem more effective
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    Aripiprazole - Abilify

    Maybe due to MAO mechanism ( MAO can also promote carb addictions depending on SNPs and is involved in dopamine synthesis) ?
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    Characterization of Post–exertional Malaise in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2020) Stussman, Nath et al.

    This Succinctly put Thanks
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    Cochrane Review: Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain (excluding headache) in adults, 2020, C De C Williams et al

    @Hilda Bastian Appreciate your thoughts on this
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Speaks volumes
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