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This is why the military generally don't like conscription.

Maybe persistent difficult-to-manage pain, especially when additionally burdened with misinterpretation and misattribution and mistreatment by doctors and broader society, causes depressed mood? Long shot, I know. But just maybe.

Psychotherapy and medication adherence are challenging in patients with somatic-type delusional disorder since they do not believe they are delusional and do not see why they would need to be treated for delusional disorder. Spot the flaw in the reasoning.

Always said that the first business of those who get power is to arrange things so they are never held accountable for any adverse outcomes of wielding that power.

According to the research council, MRC and NIHR have since 2020 collectively awarded more than £50 million for research on ME/CFS and long Covid. And how much of those funds went to the psychosomatic ideologues? This. And deconditioning.

Nothing has changed. They are refusing to learn the lessons of history. :grumpy:

Primary outcome was the difference in reduction in fibromyalgia severity as measured using the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) Stopped there.

Very good article. a recent study found long COVID patients' quality of life scores were lower than people with advanced cancers like stage four lung cancer. It's déjà vu all over again. There, she sought support from a social worker, thinking they could use all the help they could get. But...

The time of day I typically have the most problem with balance, movement, coordination, cognition, and oxygen hunger, is just after awakening in the morning. No matter the quality of sleep immediately preceding it. No idea why that is. But it usually improves quickly.

Plus, from the same team and year, The BPS club knew (or had no excuse for not knowing) this stuff 25 years ago, yet they have stubbornly stuck to the deconditioning claim to this day. How is is this not straight scientific fraud?

Arse covering. They don't want to admit they have no explanation nor effective treatment.

Wait, what? You mean there are still important things to learn about how the body works? I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked

I have some signs of Sjogren, like more-or-less permanently (moderately) enlarged and sore glands, and reduced saliva flow (to the point where I need to keep water handy, and use moisturising oral gels at night, and I have had doctors and dentists remark unprompted on the oral dryness). Did...

Yep. Very poor reflection on the standards of peer-review in this area.

Even if they were not the best quality, at the very least they should have been followed up with better quality studies. Why weren't they?

Clinical opinion is the lowest level of formal evidence ranking in medical science. For good reason.

Hasn't been much so far. To the contrary, they just get ever more stubborn and defiant. Denialism par excellence.

Exhaustion is a much better word than 'fatigue'.

In fairness to Biden, he does need the cooperation of both houses of Congress. They are the ones who pass the budget, or not. The president can only put in a budget request.

Yep. Propaganda works, unfortunately.