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This problem has cropped up in the media a lot. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/16/the-unknown-is-scary-why-young-women-on-social-media-are-developing-tourettes-like-tics...

I was under the impression that a very large proportion of funds spent on "welfare" went on pensions which go to people irrespective of health conditions. I looked up the numbers... The ones I found on the ONS (Office for National Statistics) website were not very recent, but they do give an...

Bummer! I can't read Twitter without an account any more. :(:banghead:

You've missed out torsion of either a) the ovary or b) twisting of a large ovarian cyst destroying the ovary in the process. Imagine this happening in the 1970s with the technology available at that time.

What on earth is subclinical depression? People are either depressed or they're not. If they are depressed then it can vary in severity. If symptoms of depression are declared to be "subclinical" it is just the same as saying the doctor/therapist is making stuff up about the patient.

I thought Forest Bathing was done naked, just like normal bathing in a bath. Perhaps I'm wrong. If it isn't done naked it is essentially just people going for a walk in a forest, and there has been oodles of research on the benefits of going for a walk under various circumstances.

Just a question about "functional". I was reading the wiki entry on dysautonomia today, and the second paragraph starts : Which of the various meanings of "functional" applies in this context?

I grew up with a father who despised sick people and just thought they were lazy attention seekers and hypochondriacs. He could just about bring himself to believe children with diseases that caused rashes or spots, swollen glands, fevers e.g. measles and mumps i.e. the visible childhood...

This suggests to me that the authors want doctors to have the right not to investigate if the patient walking into the doctor's office is "clearly" [sarcasm] somatising because they are/have [fill in your own blank]. Suggested options for the blank : Too young Middle-aged Getting old Old...

I always thought that particular phrase was such a glaring lie, I couldn't understand how it lasted as long as it did? Does anybody, doctor or patient, still believe it? If anyone was to use such a phrase with me now I would want to know which chemicals in my brain they actually measured, when...

Relentless positivity is as bad as relentless negativity, in any context. What I want from doctors is honesty, not something fake.

This sounds like a nasty thing to say, but I hope it turns out that fusobacterium is found to be a factor in the development of prostate cancer. If it is it will be taken much more seriously, and will be looked into far more quickly.

Very interesting. I wonder if they consider bacteria outside the uterus, anywhere in the pelvic cavity. If they don't I could imagine a scenario where a woman's uterus is free of the bacteria in question, but it exists elsewhere in the body. And where does the bacterium originate? Is it passed...

How many sides of the "debate" does PG see? The general public (with or without ME) is not allowed to reply to his tweets, so he makes sure he only sees the people who agree with him. Ditto with some others on the BPS side e.g. TG.

I would be interested in knowing what is covered by the funding numbers and the staffing numbers quoted. For example, if the funding spent on the NHS is also covering the cost of money spent on private companies apparently working on behalf of the NHS then I'd like to see graphs and numbers...

If you do a web search for "teenager pain dismissed" the links that get returned are almost all relating to girls and young women.

Since transthyretin is a transport protein for thyroid hormone (thyroxine aka T4) and retinol (vitamin A) I wonder what effect, if any, being hypothyroid or hyperthyroid has, whether "subclinical" or overt. And whether low or high levels of vitamin A have any impact.

How about BPsyS ?

True, I forgot about that.

I know of one way that FND might be falsified. I had a physical bowel problem which was diagnosed as IBS and also as being functional back in the 1990s and I therefore got no treatment. A few years later a doctor decided that I had a gynaecological problem and I got surgery where it was looked...