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Relational interventions strive to create positive, healing stories versus negative ones. I prefer stories told about medical issues to be neither positive nor negative. Just merely truthful.

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Functional symptoms remain highly misunderstood within medicine. Then how can you so confidently classify them as 'functional?

Research must meet strict criteria. If only it would. :grumpy:

FFS, if there is no correlation then there is no causation. Perceived or otherwise. That is not up for debate. Once again [bolding mine]: And increase in activity is objectively measurable.

It is truly shocking stuff, isn't it. Particularly in 2023, after all that has been exposed about this garbage, they still just assert their claims and assumptions as proven. How are we supposed to counter this kind of endless blatant bias and fraud and cruelty?

"Our finding suggests..." If there is one thing that characterises this 'method' it is how arbitrary the interpretation of the answers are, and how little attempt there is to actually determine which interpretation is correct. It is simply asserted, and is always pathological.

Through work to health. This has Wessely's fingerprints all over it.

I agree. What is lacking is a conceptual shift. We need new ideas.

Anybody have any idea of the amount of money needed to do a large replication of this study?

It is now indisputable that this process has been a complete and utter failure. I am grateful to those who tried to stop the rot and reform the institution, from without or within, and am sorry about your wasted efforts, but it is clearly beyond repair and should be shut down. Everything the...

Don't be too sure about that. They have proved very flexible and resilient at the game of raw power.

It is a nice idea, but be careful what you wish for. The BPS club were effectively that authority for decades. Or vice-versa?

Can't recall seeing any differences this stark before.

I have long thought that the ECM is a prime candidate for the answer to our problems.

I presume you meant NICE, not PACE.

Despite exercise, respiratory, olfactory rehabilitations, cognition/speech therapy and/or psychological support, the more frequent self-reported symptoms (fatigue, neurocognitive disorders, muscles and joint pain) did not resolve. As is tradition.

Cardiac pathology is the only possible physical cause of persistent chest pain? If there is no cardiac pathology, it must be PPS? This highlights the importance of focusing psychological interventions for this subgroup on the interplay between the range of physical and psychological symptoms...