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Consensus, aka clinical opinion, is all they have.

Oh boy. :banghead: All this tsunami of toxic crap is just because they simply can't say 'we don't know'. Ludicrous fairy tales to paper over the chasms in the profession's actual knowledge and competence are no answer to anything.

There are few participants in this shitty farce who are more disgusting and contemptible than Shorter. He really is a very nasty disturbed piece of work. :sick:

Because he is not as smart as he thinks he is, has nothing solid to back his case, and is getting desperate as reality closes in. Yep. Sharpe's Twittering is exactly that.

This.

I do wonder if she has actually 'overcome' it.

:facepalm:

Certainly hasn't worked with the BPS approach to ME/CFS.

Note the certainty of the language: Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common diagnosis within Neurology. Effective communication of the diagnosis is known to be an important part of treatment and can result in reduction or cessation of symptoms, as well as decreased healthcare...

Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) is a manualized treatment that integrates components of cognitive-behavioral, acceptance, dialectical, mindfulness-based, and experiential, emotion-focused, treatments using a mechanistic framework drawn from basic and translational findings in affect science...

Safety in numbers?

These are the exactly the sort of people we need onside. Patients can never force the change on our own, we don't have the political clout. It needs people with authority to force the issue at the senior levels of the profession. Right questions.

Yep, it can be twisted to suit any situation, and explain away any contrary facts. It is unfalsifiable.

They also need to be realistic about why this situation and pressures even exist in the first place.

At this rate I will still be convalescing on my death bed.

That diagram just proves that they have not changed their act one bit in the 30 years since I first became aware of it. They just keep doubling down. Why is so much of mainstream medicine (in the UK at least) still bending over backwards to give them the benefit of the doubt? It's nucking futs.

I think it is very premature to definitively distinguish between ME and CFS. There just isn't the evidence to do so safely. That smells to me like a bone to the psychs to shut them up. 'Let us have the ME patients, and you can have the CFS patients.' Not acceptable to condemn another...

...including determining how pathophysiological abnormalities arise as a consequence of etiologic biopsychosocial factors of FND. Don't you think you should establish the causal direction first? The utter certainty in this piece is disturbing. This cannot end well. :grumpy:

Also because the longer you leave it the more of the tooth is damaged, which makes it weaker, and there is only so much a dentist can repair. I recently had to get an old root canal tooth removed due to it splitting near the gum, which is not repairable. Unfortunately I cannot afford crowns...