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I don't think I'm losing my marbles! I recall the article claiming that CBT is an effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, not that there have been serious concerns raised about it being an effective treatment. The twitter link confirms this. It seems the volley of tweets, and I would...

Here it is in full.

@CFS_for_19_years, I too felt defeated when it happened the second time. Both my experiences were different. The first time was Christmas day. It was a gloriously warm, sunny day and the rest of the family were scattered around the globe so I was by myself. I suppose I should have felt a bit...

This sort of brief recovery for a day has happened to me twice. The first time was in 2001 - the day it etched in my memory! I didn't come down with any infection afterwards that I recall. The second time was in 2005 for a day following an anaesthetic for an arthroscopy. I was given...

[/CODE] It's OK to just put the URL, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientist-vaccine-jailed/, and let the forum software do the rest, unless you want to, for example, make a word a link Thanks. All fixed:thumbup:

She wasn't jailed for anything to do with vaccines but for taking lab notebooks, a computer etc. from the Whittemore Peterson Institute after they fired her. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientist-vaccine-jailed/ Edit: fixed the link address

In the mid 1990s I had a positive blood test for mycoplasma infection. The doctor told me that testing at the time couldn't identify which species it was but I have deduced it was mycoplasma fermentans. After three months of azithromycin the bacterial load was greatly reduced but I felt no...

During my bank balance-draining, ten year long quest last century to find a treatment that would do something about my ME/CFS/FM, my complementary medicine doctor put me onto this. In the spirit of leaving no stone unturned and feeling like a total nutjob, I tapped and tapped, but to no avail of...

I developed quite severe dry eyes well before I had ever heard of ME or CFS. It was just one of the laundry list of things going wrong which I suspect were part of the slow onset. Who knows. Dry eyes are so common. So far I've been given a few choices of diagnosis. A rheumatologist thinks...

Paradoxically, dry eyes can produce the watery component of tears (without oil and mucin) to protect them. The water evaporates fast and doesn't correct the underlying problem.

That's a Schirmer test.

@Ravn - I also developed idiopathic dysmotility 50 years ago during my latter teenage years, accompanied by a number of other problems which I believe were the start of my slowly developing ME. I had part of my large bowel removed in my mid twenties for a completely unrelated reason but it made...

I'm not interested in fasting for myself but this recent article may be of interest to those that are: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/898953_4

Thanks for the explanation about Lloyd's comment. I also thought the word old-fashioned was planned ahead of time and wondered at the time what sort of political reason there might be for that. After 50 years I get a bit impatient with pussy-footing around.

Writing the next day, I'm depending on the impression I was left with (and a couple of hastily scribbled quotes) rather than any planned analysis. I thought the 9 minute segment tried to say too many things in a short time and would have left viewers with the impression that GET/CBT was still...

I am clueless when it comes to the physics of tonality so I read the link from the original post and found that they used music from a series of CDs composed by Mr. Shi Feng and played by National Central Musical College Orchestra, published by Chinese Medical Multimedia Press Co.,Ltd. and...

@Luther Blissett. Yes, it is the Chinese pentatonic scale corresponding to doh re mi soh la. I hadn't read the original post properly. No, the notes of the pentatonic scale aren't equidistant. The black notes on the piano are any easy way to visualize the intervals between the notes. The black...

I'll give it a go. I'm off to poke around on the black notes of the piano with one hand (presumably they are referring to the notes of a pentatonic scale) while scratching my scalp to bleeding point with the other. I should sleep much better:thumbsup:

As you were! Antidepressants Work for Major Depression! Not so Fast Written in Medscape by Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine; Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Translational...

I know someone quite well who is an example of "competent, ethical and caring". He became a naturopath and practised for five years. Eventually his conscience got to him and he retrained as a lawyer and is now a legal aid barrister actually doing something ethical and caring. He told me that...