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Maybe 'exercise' has a specific meaning in medicine, like malaise does. But the use of exercise instead of activity is an issue for me. Any and all activity, including basal metabolism, is a problem for us. Inability to exercise is just a subset of that problem

Manipulating the Response Bias for Fun and Profit.

Woo and personal testimony go together like a horse and carriage. :emoji_musical_score:

:mad::mad::mad: How blatant does this have to get?

'Woo cures all' is a major red flag.

Based on very low-low quality evidence. Marketing, par excellence. :sick:

Call me a cynic, but I am guessing it is a lucrative program.

Yes, we do need to be careful here. There will be a lot more going on behind the scenes than we will ever know. Cochrane is the last big medical institution left nominally supporting the psycho-behavioural claim about CBT/GET, so fans of that approach will be fighting particularly hard there as...

No advance in three decades. We have heard this song before.

I am worried that long term sleep problems will have consequences for my physical health WTF is wrong with having that concern? IIRC, chronically poor quality sleep is well known to be associated with, and probably (partly) causal of, lower quality physical health. Society has been bombarded...

But they have already declared us mentally ill. QED. :rolleyes:;)

Which is exactly the situation they want. Ambiguity suits them fine. The moment they start gathering data that allows causal relationships to be clarified their pseudoscience will be exposed. That is why they are working so hard to lower methodological standards. So they can can eliminate the...

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and that the symptoms can be experienced as disabling”. Now that is patronising spin.

Because having unexplained seizures, and having to deal with moronic psycho-babbling pseudo-explanations about it from doctors, could not possibly be a source of anxiety and disruption in relationships?

Yep. There should be zero tolerance for this abusive fraudulent behaviour, and it should be very public too. Name and shame and permanently blacklist.

Not too much of a burden then? Just asking.

Which is ironic, considering one of the arguments from the BPS club is that (uncontrolled) PROMs should be given greater epistemological status. Or at least, PROMs that report a positive result. Any reporting negative results are not welcome, of course. coughactimeterscough

Add me to the list of those unimpressed by this 'case study'. This was no accident. :grumpy:

I think this is very important: The response is not linear. In one sense the most important management tool patients have is learning to stay within the relatively linear section of the response curve, and avoid entering the highly non-linear section, because that is when the trouble really...