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I have a sofa in my living room. I keep trying to call it an elephant but nobody else will indulge me. Bah!

What a waste of time, effort, and funding that was.

While in the past these disorders were presumed to be solely due to psychological issues This just looks as if the researchers are absolutely desperate to make patients accept that they have a "functional or psychological disorder" at any cost. Why? If people have biological symptoms why don't...

Yes, true. But a doctor coming out with such a horrible forecast that could affect hundreds of thousands or millions of people should have said that was what he was basing his comment on.

An N=1 comment... I used to smoke like a chimney. Not only that, but I smoked for a very long time (decades). I got help from the NHS to stop smoking using "Nicotine Replacement Therapy" and some meetings with a Stop Smoking Counsellor. It worked - I haven't smoked for over 11 years now. One...

Did he have any evidence for that remark, or was he just flapping his lips? Edit: What am I talking about? Covid has been around for no more than a year, so how could there be any evidence of early-onset dementia?

@rvallee This just tells me that people in the US who have had Covid-19 are going to be denied healthcare because, of course, being mentally ill is a choice, and they could get better if they wanted to. [sarcasm] For insurance companies and healthcare companies in the US it must have felt...

I've just taken another look at cbtwatch, and realised that the person who runs the blog appears to have stopped categorising his blogs. There are so many of them which mention IAPT but don't appear in the second link I gave. Anyone interested in the site might want to start from the present and...

The blog site cbtwatch has lots of information and statistics about how dreadful IAPT is ... http://www.cbtwatch.com/ See this link for the IAPT related blogs : http://www.cbtwatch.com/category/iapt/

I remember reading many years ago that the commonest cause of ordinary headaches is dehydration. So I started drinking some water if I got a headache just to see what would happen. I would say that it works to get rid of headache often enough that it is worth continuing this habit. If I am no...

This is just vomit-inducing. And what on earth is "hypnotic safety"? Yuck, yuck, YUCK. Many years ago I paid to see a hypnotist to try and get help to stop smoking. In just a few minutes it turned into a terrifying experience. The hypnotist was male. [Edit: And I'm female.] He told me what...

Best presentation on Covid-19 I've seen. Thanks for the heads up.

Having read the article, my "socially unacceptable" response to this : is that it would have been so much better for everyone if the people who got Long Covid were a) mostly male and b) in their 20s and 30s. Male illness is always considered to be more "real" than female illness therefore is...

@Ravn The only other things I know of that might cause restless legs are low sodium and low potassium. I've rarely had either of these tested and I wouldn't supplement them as a regular thing. But if I do get restless legs, cramp, muscle twitching etc I will try a very small amount of salt and...

Wow, thank you for the compliment. :) :hug:

Have you ever tried magnesium supplementation? It's actually one of those nutrients that can't really be tested very well. Very small amounts of the body's magnesium is found in the blood stream. Most of it is in other tissues. When the amount of magnesium in the blood drops a bit low the body...

There are other possibilities - magnesium, for example. If you search for "best and worst forms of magnesium supplement" you might find some interesting info on the subject. I'm an inveterate experimenter when it comes to supplementing. :)

People should be very wary of dopamine antagonists, and if they start taking one they should start with a tiny dose and build up very, very slowly. I took a dopamine antagonist a few years ago which was supposed to help a gut problem. I felt odd after just the first one. I was still driving at...

I can remember as a child that my father refused to believe that children could actually be in pain. I had a doctor who appeared to believe that too. Edit : I should expand on that... My father didn't believe in pain in children if it was from an invisible source. I also remember neither of my...

The most common cause of restless legs is low iron and/or ferritin. You don't have to be anaemic or suffering iron deficiency to get restless legs. Efficacy of oral iron in patients with restless legs syndrome and a low-normal ferritin: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study CSF...