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His brain isn't, it's completely unable to deal with complexity. Simple answers plucked out of thin air seems to be the most he can manage. Although I suppose his brain could be the most complex thing in his universe.

I know two trained psychologists like that. Both as sweet as you could ever meet. I shudder at the harm they're doing. To answer the question posed in the thread title, the BPS crew consider being subjected to the rules of evidence and the scientific method as an affront. They don't believe...

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I think I've mentioned it before - I had a lifelong paralyzing phobia of spiders, which I only managed to cure a year or so ago in my mid-fifties. I downloaded a CBT app and used it for a few weeks. The main part was a series of pictures, progressing from cartoon spiders to tiny ones to bigger...

Very pleased about your recovery @phil_in_bristol, and thanks for talking openly about it and sharing. I'm in my 8th year and have made great progress with pacing, although my progress seems to have reached a plateau which is nowhere near recovery but I manage to feel well most of the time. I...

I thought Sue Lawley cleared that up?

Some of my students have found Amy Cuddy's powerpose TED talk very helpful. One of them gave a presentation about it once. I tried to tell them that there was no evidence for it, but they are all studying a subject where evidence doesn't matter anyway (cultural studies) so there was just an...

I vaguely remember that Hammond's Private Eye articles are usually not so bad. Then he goes and writes horrendous drivel somewhere else. I wonder if there's a reason for that?

From part 7 of my blog (just reading it again for a trip down memory lane ...)

My 13-part blog series on my trip to the Charite in Berlin: https://forums.phoenixrising.me/blog-articles/blog/tiredsam.20476/ It is Scheibenbogen's place. I personally decided that there was no other option than going to the Charite, if they hadn't seen me I wouldn't have gone anywhere...

That's hardly an example of anything. Within a couple of hours of posting those lofty sentiments: VES tweeted the following angry and over-confident message in a knee-jerk reaction to the latest NICE email.: I'm sure many of us, myself included, saw the NICE email and thought "Fuck this...

He'd only have make the effort to get to grips with it properly once, then he could have a string of articles out of it. Precisely.

Sorry but I'm sick of ME tourists passing by, thinking they'll have a go, then dumping all over the place and buggering off again. Researchers, journalists, charletans of every persuasion, wannabe saviours, sick of the lot of them. I should probably have some porridge.

How do we know he was paid 3 days to work on it? I have a living to earn, and I've spent more than 3 days unpaid preparing for things in the past, it's a question of how much pride you take in your work, whether you can be arsed doing a proper job. I loved his first article, but this second one...

If that's investigative journalism ... Yes, that's why it's crying out for a decent investigative journalist to get to the bottom of it. How do you know? So what is it exactly that you do Tom? Jesus, the guy looks at it for 3 days, shrugs and gives up. And that's his "best shot". Bye then...

Once you have rested and start to feel better, it is very hard to understand that you can't start building up slowly again from there.

Getting some high-level signatories now: Priti Patel signed one minute ago.

Well, we've come a long way from ME articles dictated by the SMC or written by the likes of Rod Liddle. Then we had more ME-friendly articles written about Beverley the Belly Dancer and her ilk, usually celebrating how they had improved and ending with the contact details of a modelling agency...

I can see why journalists and even first-person accounts emphasise how active and positive their subject was before getting ME, in order to contrast it with how inactive they are now. I've done it myself when writing about how super fit and active I was before ME. But an unfortunate side-effect...

Says it all really.