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The DWP say in their press release that the new changes will not be introduced until 2025 and that most existing claimants will not be affected: "existing claimants" But if you are a new applicant...

Second of my two donations done. :thumbup:

Always thought that neuroplasticity is waaaaaaay oversold, and is much more limited than its proponents claim. If it was so powerful than we could all play the piano to concert standard with a bit of practice. But as somebody who taught guitar for a while I can tell you for certain that adults...

And often don't want to, because it confronts them with the limits of their competence, and they don't know what to do about it. So it just gets framed as a psychological and sometimes even a moral pathology, and effectively dismissed.

Which is what you would expect to see in patients who are persistently misdiagnosed and mistreated for decades. It tells us absolutely nothing about the validity of the SSD/FSS constructs.

I voted "It depends". I certainly think participants should have their costs covered. Beyond that gets problematic because potentially perverse incentives start coming into play.

This.

The service offers evidence-free interventions to patients with persistent symptoms (of more than six months’ duration) which are not due to any known underlying pathology.

Remains to be seen, but at this stage if I had to make a bet I would say they are basically the same thing, or so closely related that they are the same for clinical purposes.

Obscure late 70s' yacht rock band. Peaked at 172 on the Saskatchewan charts.

Go All Blacks!

And if the patient doesn't improve, or gets worse, then it must be the patient's fault for irrationally resisting 'treatment'. Under no circumstances can the therapist be to blame, apart from not 'explaining the treatment' properly.

Marketing. Yep. It really is not fundamentally different to the function of Soviet era psychiatry. It is still basically about providing a pseudo-scientific pseudo-medical pseudo-compassionate justification for social control, not for actually treating health problems.

Maybe it is because magicians are experts in how people fool themselves.

I don't think that word means what they think it means. Or what they want others to think it means.

At the absolute minimum those advocating exercise therapy need to have a robust means to predict who will safely benefit, and who won't.

In the Mental Health section, and citing NICE 2007, Cochrane on CBT 2008, and two cost effectiveness studies (one from PACE, without using the word PACE). In late 2023. Straight medical fraud and abuse.

PPS are viewed as awkward by educators and learners. Learners think that there is no science behind the symptoms. And the 'Learners' are correct. A case of the students being smarter and more honest than the teachers.

Research still has a vital role in the new ME/CFS/Long COVID paradigm. But it should be a different kind of research. The kind that no longer focuses on biomarkers and mechanisms. These are sure to provide “promising” but false leads and divert resources. The transparent lie of a premise here...

Psycho-tyranny. The worst psychopathology of them all.