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Still very problematic how language is used. IMO anxiety and depression should be considered symptoms, but they are also commonly used as short-hand for literally anything, and in most cases they are simply used as a collection of symptoms, making them redundant here unless properly defined. In...

I don't think it changed anything. There are more psychosomatic services, but probably little more than the natural course. We are in the golden age of medical pseudoscience, especially everything psychosomatic, and most of this was going to happen anyway. The massive expansion of the...

Is the case definition an actual problem? As in, does finding consensus, impossible in the current context, get us any further? Does it lead to any improvement for patients? Make better research? Doubtful, since anyone can make the choice to any case definition they want, apparently. And it...

So even though the modern models of depression and anxiety are strictly psychosocial, they usually only ask about physiological symptoms, especially the most common medical symptoms, and this practice is getting more and more common. By the same approach, electricity could be defined as magical...

This could have a significant impact in the near future. There are many countries entering a population decline, and this will exacerbate it. LC hits a lot of people in their early adulthood. A lot of people who would have wanted to have children will be unable to. So many of us have been robbed...

Yup. All mitigation measures are slowly being removed. Even as some studies are estimating prevalence by assuming a 55% reduction in LC rates from vaccination. Somehow I never hear about the flu being over, even though COVID is now on the same constantly mutating endemic status. We now have 2...

My guess would be addressing the encephalomyelitis part.

Fantasy numbers. It's been 3 years, all it would take to reach this is 2600 patients with LC the whole time. They seem to be using study cut-off points, so a study after 2 years that reported symptoms after 3 months would only count for 3 months. They decided to use 55% ratio for vaccinated...

If you can't manipulate the patient with a BS narrative, you should try manipulating the patient with a different BS narrative. What they propose is just as manipulative, it's always admitted that the "theory" is only invented to manipulate the patients, to fool them into thinking it is...

Food intake is higher in less-nauseated subjects. Experts baffled, suggest force-feeding should fix dietary fussiness. Possible interventions include animal-shaped food and graded airplaining-food-therapy.

So generic it literally means nothing, and makes a direct attribution from barely correlational data. What does it mean to have "increase capacity" that isn't actually matched by observation? This is shyster language, you can swap a few words and it's a time share MLM program that gives...

Pure marketing buzzword stuff. Mental healthcare is basically becoming like life coaching, except with even more pseudoscience. Here they're simply describing what they did and it's either buzzwords or fully generic. Entirely worthless.

I saw this being reported with such high frequency I couldn't imagine it wouldn't get researched. It's reported many ways: more problems, fewer problems, longer, shorter. Many changes, all over the place. Hard to study, for sure, but it's hard to imagine scientists going "meh" over this, and...

11% of the population does not have chronic fatigue, by any definition. Which is something you may get by using something ridiculous like the CFQ. But this study is useless because of this. Pure genius, doing entirely worthless studies while we can barely fund anything. But those garbage-tier...

Most new long haulers on the main subreddit report never having been told anything, and if they had heard of it they thought it was just, well, the usual message: a few weeks of slight tiredness at worst, maybe a slight cough. I'd be surprised if even 10% of people with LC are ever told...

I think this is sadly correct, although any sense of urgency or motivation was simply never there as the entire pandemic has been thoroughly politicized. As if medicine weren't already overly political. And the issue of chronic illness wasn't already completely politicized. This study means...

Unfortunately, those are now considered good. In fact, the current fashion is the idea that regular infections are necessary, the immune system needs to be constantly challenged or it just stops working. Or some vague BS like this. Nevermind that we are constantly exposed to millions of...

Monica Gandhi and some pediatrician who is always minimizing COVID. Absoud, or something like that. GBD signatories. They literally don't notice that their replies are filled with trolls agreeing with them. Internet trolls are never right. Yet they always boost psychosomatic stuff. Seeing...

Definitely an apt description of medicine's reaction to us: PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!