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As a form of negative (falsifying) evidence. The BPS gang are quite happy to uncritically accept positive (confirming) reports from patients.

But much more neatly stacked. ;)

They do indeed appear blind to the very real secondary psychosocial trauma their unproven speculation about primary psychosocial trauma may be creating and/or perpetuating.

Always said that the bean counters will ultimately be the ones who swing the axe on the CBT/GET regime. It just doesn't pay good dividends.

This.

Yep.

Very pleased to hear that. :)

We have a long way to go.

The review highlights the importance of establishing a clearer diagnostic classification to inform treatment trajectories and the need for appropriate training and support within a multi-disciplinary team to enable the provision of such therapies. I notice there is no mention of using more...

cynical/realistic It's a fine line.

From the ME Association report of the meeting: Invoking the biopsychosocial principle or model does not automatically validate any specific diagnostic, causal, or therapeutic claim made in its name. Each claim (hypothesis) still needs to be empirically validated in its own right. What is being...

Those two sentences don't go together. I think that is the first time I have seen a -ve effect size.

The brazen power grab continues unabated. See Barsky And Borus, 1999. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10375340/

Nice catch.

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:D

'worry' And that is how you spin normal, healthy, ongoing and necessary integration of the past, present, and future, into simplistic pathology. The past matters, the present matters, the future matters, concurrently, all the time.

Unethical approval.

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Booked in for my 2nd booster (4th shot overall) at the end of the month at a local pharmacy. That will make it 7 months since my 1st booster. An encouraging comment from the guy taking the booking was that they had been flooded with bookings from the moment they started taking them on Monday...