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I echo that problems in short term or working memory impact on decision making, that is problems holding the necessary information in awareness all at once. Although not exactly the same this is related to the memory need to dial a phone number, for example my digit span has drop from the normal...

Turns out it was already posted there, and I had commented on it two weeks ago.

I don’t know if this has already been posted, admins please delete if this the case...

For a good while it was reading novels. When I was a child I knew several adults who had not been permitted to read any fiction books before teatime when children. And more recently I knew families where reading novels was not permitted on the Sabbath.

Rather it should read ‘current assertion in one narrow and incessantly self referential section of the scientific literature is that various biological, psychological and social factors play a role in the development and continuation of the complaints though really we believe its all in their heads’

Many thanks @cfsandmore Reading the first article I was struck by quote “Researchers told her that, on any given task, she might stress her body in a way that could undo all her progress. “They would remind me each day that this could be the last exercise you’re able to do,” she said. They’d...

I also hit a paywall.

Thank you @Trish and all involved for all the work gone into this letter. It is hard to see how anyone with a modicum of sense could continue to ignore these points. One can only conclude that Cochrane management are now deliberately avoiding any meaningful consideration of these issues...

Me too.

We desperately need a good natural history or just a basic description of the range and variations of symptoms in ME and of associated/co-occurring conditions. I am not sure even people with ME have a full understanding of what ME can involve for others. Certainly a lot of us have symptoms we...

Very much this.

I thought the current estimates of those with Long Covid meeting the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS was in the region of 50%. It is perhaps not surprising that Dr Miller continues to echo the BACME party line of emphasising recovery and trying to sneak in some form of GET disguised as...

Thank you @Andy for raising this with the MEA, I had foolishly assumed that Sarah Tyson would have returned to try to resolve the issues once she had reflected on this. But I am more disappointed if the MEA are deliberately sidetracking this too.

I think Lord Simon would imply a hereditary title, whereas for a life peer these would be the options: The Rt Hon Lord Wessely of Grabalot, or The Rt Hon Simon, Lord Wessely of Grabalot (or the short form Lord Wessely) The Rt Hon Simon Wessely, Lord Grabalot (or Lord Grabalot for short) See...

They had supposedly put the data on an ‘open access’ platform, but last I heard no one had managed to down load any of it. Does anyone have any up to date information?

Great if this becomes better understood. Potentially a game changer.

I was wondering if death was considered a psychosomatic symptom by the authors.

It will be interesting to see what happens. It does feel that things have moved on from articles being withdrawn and journalists offending the BPS deities getting the sack. Weesley and Sharpe must be itching to respond, but also must be aware of the risks this involves. I suspect either others...

Good to see this in the Guardian, given their historic support for the BPS crew and associated patient bashing.

Fortunately I have escaped the sleep police, and since I have taken ill health retirement I find what works for me is just let my sleep patterns do what they want. For me I snooze during the day if needed, I use screens during the night as distraction when I can’t sleep, and generally sleep or...