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Therefore psychogenic? No other plausible interpretation? Nothing problematic with the way you define anxiety, for example?

Nice post, Helly. :) I recently discovered Bardcore. :emoji_violin:

Don't you just love the certainty. Way back in 1988. :grumpy:

Even the good guys in this field seem to be really struggling with the idea that the activity limit in ME is not negotiable. Doesn't mean it won't vary over time, or that by careful management and lots of practice patients cannot improve their situation over time and make the most of what they...

Lookout: Iceberg ahead! Captain: More CBT, and damn the icebergs.

Strictly speaking, PACE showed that if deconditioning is part of the problem, then that version of CBT & GET don't fix it. Which doesn't exactly give support to the putative role of deconditioning in their model. A null result, I believe. Don't even have to show that. Just have to show that...

If they think this is bad, then they are just going to love the vastly greater human and economic carnage after a year of failing to eliminate the damn thing.

History will show that patients have been remarkably restrained under decades of extraordinary provocation. We are not the ones who have anything to answer for. I think the most appropriate response to these claims is to demand an independent, high-level, and public formal inquiry into the...

May I be the first to congratulate them on being a perfect match. :balloons:

:woot::woot::woot:

2020 is not shaping up as good year for the human race. Particularly as our troubles seem mostly self-inflicted.

That is possible.

I don't have the reference to hand, but IIRC some years back he was the subject of one of those puff pieces in a medical journal about 'why I chose X' where he said he went into psychiatry because didn't like dealing with the body (or words to that effect). Which is interesting. Suggests he...

“If you have an author who deliberately tries to mislead, it’s surprisingly easy for them to do so,” he said. Especially if they are telling you what you already want to hear.

If they were honest compassionate professionals they would openly acknowledge and apologise for these kind of mistakes, and learn from them. Without being asked or forced to.

So bad it is not even wrong.

So, a wellness life coach? Kinda the opposite of specialising, isn't it? In fairness, the guy does say (in response to Michiel Tack) that: I think it’s a disease that I know little about. Admission of ignorance is a good place to start learning.

I used to work in the medical system, including in the wards and dealing with patients and medical staff every day, and socialising with the staff after hours, and I get why they need to do gallows humour. If they didn't they would go mad with shock and grief. None of them would last in the job...

The Goldilocks theory that patients just don't know how to balance their lives, and need an expert to help them re-learn how to do it all over again. It is patronising, infantilising, demeaning, insulting, and very dangerous subjective authoritarianism, entirely to justify these 'experts' lust...

Refrigerator mothers all over again. :grumpy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory