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Here is where the research took place: at the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder. https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2019/08/30/it-possible-think-pain-away Fairly outrageous claims about near extinguishing of pain in 4/5 of patients. I would guess...

I've been reading about the main author of the study and his clinic in Los Angeles, that is Alan Gordon, LCSW. and his Pain Psychology Center. Gordon is associated with Dr. Harold Schubiner (mind-body medicine) who believes that stress explains exactly everything and who is also an author of...

watched a circumcision ("they don't feel pain") while a nursing student. The pediatrician looked like he hadn't slept all night and he had a little knife. Hurt like bloody hell as far as I could tell. So when it came time to make that decision about my baby boys...I left the decision up to...

The Bateman Clinic is in Salt Lake City also. Hope there will be some collaboration.

I have moderate-severe fibromyalgia pain and sometimes the pain is so all encompassing (throughout the body) that I don't have a specific area screaming "pain" but my brain is reacting to the level of nerve discharges with increased levels of fatigue, confusion. I can't think clearly when this...

Great job dissecting out this flabby nonsense @Hutan. Yikes, my health insurance company United Health Group will be promoting this flim-flam snake oil regimen soon--good to know.

(I'm not sure that I have ME/CFS per the most strict diagnostic criteria,) But I certainly have fibromyalgia and that started at age 45 and I was certainly having early symptoms of perimenopause by age 46. I did take some HRT combo to get me through that turbulent period. HRT did nothing for my...

I had flare-ups of pain from pushing my old (30 years and running fine) Royal upright. But alas, the belt was stretched out and floppy-useless and I tried ordering the right belts, except they were so tight, so no, they weren't the right part. The right part is now obsolete, unavailable. But...

@Louie41, brilliant!

What an extraordinary article! I wonder how representative the sampling was. Not that it needs to be.

Can't escape the BPS brigade, they've nailed fibromyalgia. Read an interview with the trauma psychiatrist Bessell van de Kolk (after trauma we are left with a different nervous system and we are trying to control our inner turmoil. He writes: “These attempts to maintain control over unbearable...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02134-0

"Moving in stillness." I hope that includes breathing.

I guess the authors don't understand the word "chronic."

"The long- and very long-term progression is poorly known, but it can be noted that there are few or even no cases of fibromyalgia after the age of 70 years, even if the condition has existed for a long time." That is one of many examples of misleading or false assertions in this review article...

How pedestrian of the author, who should, by the way, retire completely and not write articles because he seems confused. Which came first, the physical disease or the mental illness. Not everyone is depressed by their limitations, by the way. Frustrated at times, but one adapts, no?

USA having a ton of new covid cases in the unvaccinated, plus many vaccinated infected and either asymptomatic or mildly ill. What isn't clear is: what is the tiny risk of getting long covid if you are vaccinated? I suppose I shouldn't be worried. It's just the ubiquity of cases in our...

Is there any way someone can come out to vaccinate you from a clinic or you can get a ride to it?

Virologists (Vincent Rancaniello of Columbia University) believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus will become like the other 4 corona "cold" viruses---endemic. That will take many (hundreds?) of years. I don't think you can outrun, outlast this one, sorry.

My impression (a year of working as a clinical research coordinator for a cardiologist in the USA) is that MDs who commit fraud are lightly punished. Some squeak by with only a few years of not being able to do a clinical trial. Few are banned for life. Physicians are god-like (if no longer to...