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Boris should have had someone better draft the letter sent to everyone. Remember "Stay at home. Protect the NHS. Save lives" You are apparently allowed to travel for work purposes, but how that includes sitting in the passport office all day with your colleagues defies the imagination. Perhaps...

...but are you surprised?

Real men don't visualise masculinity and identity threat. If that doesn't make things "kick-off" nothing will.

Unfortunately it seems to be more complicated than that. The 1922 report makes it clear that there were cases of shell shock arising after percussive injuries, but that ancillary forces who had not been near the front line sometimes suffered the same symptoms. Some were malingering, some not...

I am not a fan of Stone, but think some of the criticism is a little unfair. I see no reason why he should not, knowingly, create a neologism using some metaphor if he wishes to indicate a belief that the end of the century sees us back to where we were at the beginning. Some may not consider...

Would you say that in 2018 it could reasonably be stated that CBT was a "highly effective treatment for CFS? Did not even its most ardent advocates make more limited claims for its efficacy by that date? That however is the claim mad in the tribute from Oxford. New and highly effective forms of...

I thought that was reasonably clear from the outset, at least from BBC reports.

One might have hoped that they were not so stupid as to have learned nothing in thirty years. Apparently they are.

This is an old paper, but of more than historical interest. I came upon it s significance by chance. Others might have, like me, seen no pressing need to explore the views of someone of whom they had never heard on the subject of CFS. They would have shared my error. Surawy appears to be a...

That was the foundation of the BPS entry into ME quoting the Imboden, Canter Cluff papers on chronic brucellosis from 1959 and Asian flu from 1961 and 1965. The "science" looks wholly dubious. That seems to have been the great rediscovery of 1987, but just who rediscovered the papers is as yet...

There seems to be a basic conceptual flaw in that sheet. Patient presents with MUS Either no patients present with MUS , or all patients present with MUS. A patient presents with as yet undiagnosed symptoms. That is why he/she has gone to a doctor. This is not the same as presenting with MUS...

Interesting idea. The term "mass hysteria" may have very different uses.. Panic buying of loo rolls does not lead to somatisation. So far as we know.

Amazing, isn't it? Medical staff dying of the virus and, as yet, we have not heard of any outbreaks of mass hysteria. There must clearly be a hidden problem. Perhaps we should send them some of our experts to advise.

Wasn't this Goldberg's great discovery. That illness consists merely of anxiety and depression... whatever the illness.

A point has occurred to me about that laughable "use exercise of maximum fatigue". Apologies for returning to the subject but it is probably sensible to pre-empt the obvious purported rebuttal which might be anticipated. It might be said that we are all, or mostly, long term severe moderate to...

I suppose that at times of maximum fatigue one could practise rolling one's eyes. Would that count?

Does anone else get the impression that all this is just a way of diverting scarce resources to enable geeks to play with their tackle?

It does make you wonder what illness the people had who were being seen. It seems to bear no resemblance to anything we have. " Use exercise at the time of maximum fatigue". For Heaven's sake.

He did always say that most of his patients believed that their illness had a psychological component and that it was only those who maintained the belief that the illness had a physical cause who refused to get better. It seems quite possible that the observation was valid, though he does not...

[The problem seems to be that we do not know what the psychological theories were, how they might have changed, or what they are now. The views do not ever seem to have been tested by knowledgeable critics in a forum where answers must be given. Apart from that all is well.