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In fact Michael Sharpe can congratulate himself - for years he has been complaining that ME sufferers have been blocking psychological research, making himself believe that it is true, talking as if it were true, and now it has come to pass. What an amazing demonstration of the power of Michael...

One of the first things I noticed about ME was that I no longer got any feel-good endorphins from exercise. In fact I started getting some feel-really-shit endorphins. So I should be taken to a gym and those feel-good endorphins will magically come back as if it was all just a dream? I have...

It happens. We have to put up with people hijacking terms all the time, as in "that's a bit OCD" or "that's a bit autistic". Annoys me every time I hear some ignoramus hijacking a word like that, but what can you do?

Campaigning to stop marketing and empire building disguised as research is a worthy endeavour in my opinion. What's this focus on "a good look" anyway? Just illustrates how Sharpe has got his priorities all wrong - not everyone is interested in building a career on looking good to the right people.

I'm sure this point has been made before, but didn't the BPS lot say that if GET didn't work, it was either the fault of the patient, or the therapist, for not doing it properly. Now apparently the patient and therapist colluding to work out their own version of GET is what they've been doing...

Is there any evidence for any of this?

Will this book be ready for my ?

There are quite a few stories about ME/CFS that are yet to break. PG can get to the back of the queue with his.

Really?

The passive verb avoids having to say who's doing the believing. Presumeably clinicians. The English not First Language defence isn't good enough, if the authors are presuming to carry out a linguistic analysis, a competent understanding of the language they are analysing should be a given...

Oh the irony. Maybe this chap should practise mindfulness to improve his ability to pay attention to the evidence, or lack of it.

A google picture search gives hundreds of results for this picture. In some cases it is credited to Shutterstock/AshTProductions. Here is AshTProductions: https://www.shutterstock.com/de/g/AshTproductions And if I'm not mistaken, our favorite model:

Voila (discussion of exhausted model at desk): Petition: Remove CBT/GET from NICE guidelines NOW (ALL COUNTRIES can sign)

Not wanting to be nitpicky, but the we've seen that picture at the top of the article before, a few years ago. I'm used to the media using rubbish stock photos of models at a desk rubbing their head to represent ME, but I'm disappointed to see a patient organisation use it. I suppose it's...

Private doctors were offering Rituximab privately for 10k a time before the blinded trials were finished, even though they were asked not to. Doctors are performing expensive and damaging spinal surgery. Now we have this. It's a pattern we are sadly seeing regularly - going straight from...

When my kids were small, when it went quiet was the time to start worrying what they were up to.

Oh bugger.

The Prudence Trust doesn't seem very prudent to me. But then it was only set up in 2020 and has Simon Wessely on their advisory panel, so we're stuffed. I suspect some kind of astroturfing / territory grab going on here.

Too easy. Not even going there.

I'd like to put a fiver on them having just made it up please.