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yes, the top one is the 1968 paper I found. Others @strategist mentioned. For those who haven't read through it, I do not recommend. Way to get your HR up. I'm going through methodical SNP analysis now to settle. Wish I could say I do not believe the reality that this is still being...

This paper appears to discuss 'fetishism', transvestitism, and BDSM (why are those interested in ME conversion invariably also interested in BDSM? A question for another day.) Hideous, but not about sexual orientation, it would appear. [Edit: worse, but something tells me that since this...

Just asked him. That's the type of thing I'd want to confirm.

It's literally that. I'd just call it ME conversion therapy. "You aren't really sick. Being sick is a choice." ... "maybe it's just a phase." ... "have you tried not being sick?"

So she's a TERF. That fits.

But when your physical signs are imaginary, that's fine.

Thank you @strategist -- this is a harrowing account.

We might be able to get info if you inquire here: https://twitter.com/stopGETteam

Nail meet head.

In my experience, good people are cautiously optimistic about others' intentions. If they hear about a disease for the first time and they learn its existence is contested in some corners, they usually admit they don't understand and/or offer sympathy: erring on the side of kindness. Jerks...

Huh! Okay let me see... I remember seeing stories... Looks like old link is down? Hmm.

See my reply in the other thread. ;)

I'm familiar with who put it together -- the goal wasn't to gather as many stories as humanly possible, but a curated list of good stories. There are things there that may not be elsewhere.

Just quoting previous post:

ME Association did a giant survey on GET and CBT as a whole. I believe there were some narratives about PACE there. You can also check the STOP GET website -- they were collecting patient reports, and I'm pretty sure some of them were PACE. I think it will be easier to get negative reports of...

I've often said this. The emotional cost, and the cost of 'sense of self' is too high, now, for them to ever admit they are wrong. Re: whether or not Sharpe has a conscience, though, I can't say. Re: materials proclaiming the grand effectiveness of CBT/GET: Well. Yes. They did. And it...

C+ work. :thumbup: I mentioned Parliament debate and said investigative skills were 'shoddy'. Sorry/not sorry. In that kind of mood.

Definitely Beth and I challenged the idea of exercise for all. One clinician who sat in on one of the exercise lectures challenged the speaker about ME at my request (I was in another conference room). But that presenter was clearly outlining pacing: "don't push the patient past their energy...

Beth and I queried him on this. "The parts of the brain associated with voluntary actions light up on fMRI," was his answer. He told the usual exceptional stories about hysterical blindness. Beth and I mentioned that there were lots of disorders that were sworn to be psychosomatic until we...

Gooood question. Not as such. People were talking about laxity -- as in EDS. People spoke about tremor and seizure. But generalized weakness, not so much.