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This is an extreme level of cherry-picking. Most people see through the BS and reject it. Anger is a more common reaction. Everyone in the discipline knows it and complains about it all the time. This is just laughable. It's pure imaginary internal scenarios like Wessely did early in his...

It really does appear to be the 'correct' answer, isn't it? As in arguing against this point is a bad career move, even worse for a student. Pretty embarrassing stuff, frankly. It sure is, and creates a huge imbalance in the stakes involved. For the patients, everything is on the line, their...

Is any of this language found in illnesses that aren't disbelieved? Because I don't need someone to validate my experience, I need someone to understand it and do something smart and useful about it. I could not care less about validation, whatever it means to different people. It just needs to...

Not a problem when everyone does it /s Or, well, it's perception if that's convenient, and it's just reporting when it isn't. Funny how the bias always aligns in the same direction.

They really never got over Freud at all, uh? Not even a little bit. He could read this right now and not even need to have anything explained to him, other maybe than database, there is nothing new here, this is pure "women be hysterical, amirite?" All completely circular, too. In what universe...

Even though, of course, most people are not. In fact most reject it outright, often directly to their own faces. Which is known, and acknowledged in the literature, so it's just a lie. But they get around that by framing it like you did, how it "may" provide such an explanation, how a fraction...

Isn't that redundant? The compensatory active is not itself part of the autonomic response? Or I guess it's the difference between autonomic failure and dysfunction. It still seems like failure to me, so this is more about there being a similar term in the way, and no better term coming out of a...

Studies like this are entirely worthless. Health records on issues like this only capture subsets of clinical practices, with errors in several directions. It's a textbook version of the platonic cave, where the shadows on the wall are made by the actions of people in the same group as those...

I'm not really thinking about differentiating from ME/CFS. Even as a model of generic chronic fatigue this is wrong, because it would be alleviated with rest, with reducing the problem, which is stress. This is more like someone who is very tired after a long day of physical labor, except...

I have no idea what or who this is for, other maybe than as marketing for his business. It pretty much says nothing of value and somehow argues that this is not said enough and that physicians don't know this. Copy-paste advertorial based on copy-paste pseudoscience. I'll take the current crop...

But that's a model of stress, not fatigue. Chronic fatigue is not the result of lifestyle behavior, otherwise it wouldn't be chronic.

The Long Tail of Long COVID-19: Broad and Extensive Increase in Utilization Within an Integrated Healthcare System https://www.cureus.com/articles/462075-the-long-tail-of-long-covid-19-broad-and-extensive-increase-in-utilization-within-an-integrated-healthcare-system Abstract Background The...

Oddly enough, I think I've mostly seen the opposite, because it "better" matches their model where there might be a precipitating event, but the functional part is psychobehavioral. In fact, it might be the next frontier, it would be easy to waste decades on this, as with it comes the...

Orwell would be impressed. And probably disgusted. But impressed.

A 2026 update on that would be pretty short and easy to put together. It has, in fact, gotten significantly worse, it's the only way to keep the gravy trolley looping around the track. Which is, clearly, the only goal. The ideology must perpetuate itself, or else the giant sunk cost of tens of...

Indeed. I do see a lot of people saying that, actually, how the emotional toll is the worst part, and it really is awful, but it's completely secondary to the real problem, and what putting the emotional burden forward does is making it acceptable to just focus on the emotional toll and ignore...

Kingdom A, which measures distances in feet, using their king's foot as a base unit, has compared its scale of measurement with the engineers of kingdom B, which also measures distances in feet, using their king's foot as a scale, and they're really close, therefore king feet are a valid unit of...

Uh, it is? Must have missed it. Continued? Must have missed that, too. This will definitely come as a surprise to people living in those countries. I don't think "not interested, here's some biopsychosocial crap" is a defined care pathway. Yes, please, that would be nice. It would have been...

Wow, someone did not listen to a damn thing they heard and just put down what they wanted in the first place, uh? That's ridiculous. Justice delayed is justice denied. Delayed diagnosis is the same as denying justice, except with zero mechanism for correction, or even acknowledgement, certainly...

Sure it can. It is, in everyone! No one has any idea what to do with the top two most common symptoms, the other being pain. It should not, but that's a wholly different concept, one that compels action, while the idea of cannot has the implication that it wouldn't be, and yet it is, because...