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Interesting. I actually posted my previous post before reading the third page of comments (brain fog), so hadn't realised the question had sort of already been answered. Thanks for the links and additional clarification, though! It does sound like it would help some people. My wariness of...

What will Bristol do when asked to actually record the so-called harassment they keep no records of?

Interesting. I see there's already some published info on this. Achieving Remission in Gulf War Illness: A Simulation-Based Approach to Treatment Design https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4508058/ A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of mifepristone in Gulf...

I'm skeptical. What's the evidence and how much of it is the same-old for psychological treatments?

But that doesn't completely contradict the newer study. It just shows that FMT helps IBS, or IBS co-morbid with ME, but not ME alone. The first study says FMT helps IBS but not ME with IBS. They both agree on 'pure' IBS or ME, it's only where the two conditions apparently coexist that they...

This could be said of many things though. I bet ECT is, in most cases, inseparable from medicalised torture. The problem isn't the treatment, per se, but the people who use it--and I can bet they prefer to use it on patients who don't align with their view of what's wholesome or healthy. This...

But did it last or was it just a short-term thing?

Then what are you suggesting? If it's not a mistake or misunderstanding, you're saying it's intentional. What do you think she's intending to do?

Thanks for the clarification. That's encouraging.

Exactly. It's not logical. So it's more likely to be a mistake or misunderstanding than it is malice.

I'm guessing it's just misinformation. It's terribly complicated, so she might not have been advised well.

This just proves why she had to use a pseudonym. The true militants are the psych crowd.

They're using MUS too. It's a complete mess!

I think CF here must mean CF and not ME or CFS. Klimas knows the difference. I assume she's pointing out that fatigued patients aren't the same as GWI patients.

FND is an umbrella term. It's variously used by doctors to avoid or remain ambiguous about a patient's symptoms. It's coded under 'conversion disorder' (i.e., it's psychosomatic). Anything without evidence of organic pathology can be labelled FND, and they've started shunting ME under that...

It still is. I think the negative side-effects are rather overstated, however. Such is the case with most recreational drugs--and such responses are more politically and socially driven than scientific. It's also likely street GHB is mixed with other things or replaced with other substances...

Interesting. Do we know any more about this?

A pain clinic full of psychologists? It's the lunatics running the asylum! Quite literally, it seems.

Can't you attend sessions with the physio, or whoever, and then just pretend to do the exercise in between? How will they know?

I've only read the bit about BAME people so far. Yet again, he looks like he's trying to please everybody at once. He dances around the institutionalised racism that means BAME people get sectioned more readily, but is happy to namedrop psychosocial factors (including the historic trauma of the...