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Or just get a friendly [insert pet of choice here], and skip the whole seeing a psych step.

That would be the deconditioning that they still have not established the existence of. "may" By which they mean 'we have no idea'.

Yep. It isn't just the researchers who carry the blame, it is the whole system that supports them. The researchers could not have got so far on their own. They needed substantial sustained material and political support and protection. And they have had it for 30 years. Not to mention patients'...

Same story here. Only take enough to just control it (10mg Losec daily). Plus keep a bottle of Gaviscon handy for the occasional small top-up (maybe once every day or two). Totally worth it. Persistent serious acid reflux is very not fun. :dead::dead::dead:

Which was when their spin changed from 'patients are anti-psych', to 'a small hardcore militant group of anti-psych patients and hangers on (possibly violent) are preventing the vast majority of nice good patients from getting treatment'. And what @strategist & @Kitty said.

Relevant to me, as a long term user of PPIs. Yet another reason to avoid getting COVID-19 in the first place. I'm guessing that should be 'susceptibility'.

Interesting choice of words.

You guys sure you want to go down this road?

Dripping with power lust.

In this article, the authors performed a narrative review... Stopped there.

That is a critical qualifier. It makes it symptom driven, which is pacing not GET.

THIS.

Yep, time for some long overdue shaming.

IOW, a standard decay curve you would expect from no actual therapeutic effect and regression to the mean.

But surely it would be too much of a burden for patients? :whistle:

That is the most important issue of all in this brutal farce: How have they have got away with it for so long, and indeed been lavishly rewarded for it? It shows beyond any doubt there has been a major, critical, and sustained failure of both technical and ethical standards in medicine...

Except for the exclusive reliance on subjective self-report without adequate blinding or objective measures thing. All this sort of paper demonstrates, yet again, is that they can induce changes in self-report scoring behaviour in some patients. They have yet to demonstrate that this...

:) :hug:

"People are then plagued with ongoing exhaustion..." Exhaustion is a better word than 'fatigue'.

Watch out for bruxism. It can do serious long term damage to your teeth.