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It’s often framed as an impulsive, irrational act that could have been allayed had a seasoned CBT practitioner intervened. However, I would suspect that in many instances, suicides in the ME community are the picture of rationality. Individuals facing homelessness with a debilitating disease...

Freedman, the author of this piece, is a prolific FND proponent on Twitter. I don’t recall ever seeing him wade into debates surrounding ME, but if he’s on this train, I wouldn’t be shocked if his views were discordant from many here.

The public criticism without adequate follow-up is like the pronouncement of a feudal lord. When you demedicalize a disease and portray its sufferers as malcontents, a response isn’t warranted. I feel the Long Covid community is finally seeing the writing on the fall as White, Chalder, etc...

It’s an exclusive club, and we aren’t in it. Broad generalizations are suitable for BPS luminaries, especially when conversing with members of the peasantry (us).

If they are referring to disability benefits, people who receive these financial compensation packages often have to produce objective indicators of disease. Thus, people receiving these likely have an underlying condition that wouldn’t subside with CBT, no matter how assiduously it’s been...

I see that Health Sense requested that Carson contact them to outline the purported errors in Caroline’s piece. Notably, to my knowledge, they haven’t publicly (at least in the various Twitter threads) solicited the legions of commenters decimating White’s anemic arguments.

I believe the official term is incompetent, patient hating charlatans

I submitted a post regarding this blather in a different thread, so the moderators may want to move it. but I find it astounding that White glosses over the conflict of interest issue by arguing that physicians wouldn’t want to provide ineffective treatments to patients. Of course they...

Merged from the PACE trial thread https://www.healthsense-uk.org/publications/newsletter/newsletter-118/273-118-white.html Peter White penned this anemic missive defending PACE and the provision of CBT/GET. Amidst a plethora of gems, he seems to argue that he and other BPS ideologues aren’t...

She’s like a pompous conquistador attempting to civilize a coterie of mindless brutes deluded into believing that debilitating post-viral illness is a legitimate clinical entity. It’s beyond disheartening to see her name in conjunction with these efforts. Until medical professionals stand in...

We should preemptively pen the BPS missives before they materialize, as I imagine we could almost mirror them verbatim. These pseudo-philosophical tirades about the folly of separating brain and mind have nothing to do with the BPS approach to post-infectious disease. And to call this reductive...

Visual dysfunction and refractory ocular pain constitute my most disabling symptoms. Even more so than the pervasive exhaustion, visual maladies render daily existence abysmal. I hope these efforts provide some insights into underlying pathology. As the eyes are the windows to the soul, perhaps...

Following the Guardian piece on gaslighting Long Covid sufferers, Gaffney penned an insolent little Twitter missive reminiscent of the typical BPS standard bearers. I’m curious as to whether he will respond to this composition. Either way, well done @dave30th! Let’s hope that physicians...

Any insights into the Svengali behind this ME informational session? I also find it somewhat paradoxical that clinicians would posture as experts regarding a condition that remains so enigmatic it hardly lends itself to any sort of expertise.

I love the parallel track of FND nonsense accentuated by this paper. On one hand, the exhaustive efforts to render it a “rule in” diagnosis. On the other, let’s just attach the label to any symptoms in the most slapdash, cavalier fashion possible. In practice, I’m guessing the later is what...

Winarick, the blundering psychologist referenced throughout this thread reappeared today with some strident commentary about our patient community. Thanks to Tom Kindlon for flagging this on Twitter! One wonders what compels a healthcare provider to cavalierly toss this out about a...

Walt Koroshetz is one of the least impressive and imperious figures in the American public health apparatus. I’ve witnessed him discuss ME with an almost childlike sense of bemusement. I feel differently about Avi Nath and some of his subordinates. I believe they’re more erudite and principled...

This stops short of wholeheartedly endorsing PACE and the edifice undergirding it, but to those engrossed in this discourse, the rhetoric is all too familiar. For context, this is Adam Gaffney’s wife recycling the same hackneyed tropes used to denigrate and vilify ME patients for decades. The...

When you’re beneath contempt, as we are in the eyes of the medical establishment, any attention bestowed upon us will appear benevolent. When we invariably illuminate the myriad flaws inherent in Chalder’s work, we’re branded ingrates. I’ve seen Med Twitter flush with citations of the...