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I really don't know where to begin to search for this. In the last year 2 papers/articles have been published basically dismissing the recent trend of calling psychosomatic by other labels, especially labels like 'functional' that explicitly intend to hide their meaning, and just call them...

More like their professional ethics codes say that in writing somewhere, but they are just that: words somewhere. Enforcement is the only thing that matters, and those duties and obligations are not actually enforced as they are written. Just a slogan, basically. It looks nice, like Google's...

It would be something to behold to simply replace a few terms and keep everything else the same, making this about some homeopathic clinic and how even the authors of this drivel would dismiss it out of hand. All the data could be the same, the conclusions, from reviewers and professional...

Followed by not scientific terms that are really just a bunch of woowoo and are pretty much the exact same made-up explanations behind the CBT/GET paradigm, which he presents here with only slight variations on labels, which is what the psychosomatic paradigm is all about: obfuscation through...

Some videos, probably only viewable on Xitter:

Odd. Not sure where this is published.

I'm not really concerned by that. This ideology thrives in darkness, needs it. In fact it looks awful in daylight, hence why they avoid it as much as they can. It doesn't mean that it would be a watershed moment for us, but it wouldn't be good for the quacks. A major reason why this nightmare...

:cry: it truly learned from the professionals. It's so beautiful. Joking aside, yikes on going ahead with it before it's ready. It will be ready soon. Jumping the gun here is a good way to turn the work culture against something that will soon be superior in all cases. Especially if they...

That's probably why so much was made of keeping CBT on the guideline, even if framed as only for support. But it's still described as a treatment in some clinics, and so is GET despite being explicitly forbidden. So I'm sure there's a lot of "the rules are the rules", it's obvious that they're...

They very accurately embody the expression of people being so accustomed to privilege that they perceive equality and fairness as injustice. That they should have to provide evidence for their claims beyond their own opinions, when they have had the privilege of doing so for decades, is...

Good grief this is a mess, Al-Aly aside. And so judgmental in most of the wrong ways. At its core is what even is the definition of mental illness, which the paragraph about Long Covid and pre-existing mental illness shows is just a giant dysfunctional clusterfuck. They're really stuck on mental...

Depending on the audience, which I assume it British, from what I read the common British English equivalent would be 'poorly'? On our side of the Atlantic it's generally closer to feeling unwell, but really there isn't good vocabulary for this as this has to span the "blurgh" of a cold all the...

"The king is alive? Long live the king?" Are they pretending not to know that the thing they are testing is the "causal therapy is currently widely recommended according to evidence-based criteria"? Or are they genuinely ignorant? I doubt it. It's not plausible. Not even close. For starters...

I wonder how much of this is due to GI issues. I can only eat small meals and not too often. Last year I dropped to a low weight, 132 lbs at 185 cm, and I managed to get back to about 150 lbs by eating a snack in the afternoon and more caloric food but I still couldn't handle a normal-sized...

Revelations like this as so illuminating. There is no reason for this model or those specialist centres as they are designed and why it should be recommended in the first place, it has no basis in fact. They know nothing of what happens to patients, the nature and substance of the treatments is...

That's pretty much the whole problem in a nutshell right there. Just as absurd as thinking that they are explaining the unexplained. The real problem is they see nothing wrong with going downstairs and ending up on the roof. Like it's all perfectly normal and expected. And it has been 'solved'...

And probably says a lot that in one of his early writings dismissing ME, Wessely explicitly named schizophrenia as something that is not a real disease, saying that if ME is a real disease, then so should schizophrenia. Which of course it is, they are both. The man, like the whole school of...

I'm wondering if this could be similar to an episode I had early on in my illness. 'Hysterical' is inaccurate framing, uncontrollable would be more accurate. Some of my early problems were a sudden loss of consciousness while watching television at home, I stopped breathing, and it lead to...

It is definitely news to about 99% of MDs. Even those who "know" it. They don't actually know it, only some version of it that isn't especially close to reality. It will have to be repeated until it sinks in, which at the rate things are going might be a long while. I'm glad it is. It should be...

"Webster's dictionary defines the word cringe as" you know what it doesn't matter but damn is this cringe-worthy meandering drivel. This is beyond death of expertise and firmly into death of reason. And of basic attachment to facts. They are basically pretending that this is a new approach...