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That was AfME in the past, and they were unresponsive to any attempts at dialogue. I don't. Whilst there is a lot of scope for people to take their own approach, some things are still true or not true, right or wrong. Some things are abusive and harmful, and the fact that some organisations or...

Those who have valid concerns about AfME should be able to express them. AfME have an absolutely appalling history, and still have a way to go on some fronts. The fact that they have made some progress and we can now co-operate with them on some matters does not mean that concerns should no...

My blood tests always come back fabulous. I'm a very lucky chap.

I'm not sure it's politics, I noticed the same when I was teaching in multi-national corporations. My students would tell me (and I was there long enough to see it for myself) - every 2-5 years there'd be a new concept and a reorganisation, trumpeted with enthusiasm by those who introduced it...

That seems to be exactly what happened when someone had a go at this in 2018, resulting in a "no further action" letter from the Commission: https://memanchester.wordpress.com/afmecomplaint/

It really is a thing. Here's a burlesque dancer with plans for a modelling career and a link to her facebook page at the end of the article: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/couldnt-out-bed-eight-months-6438056 Here's a former "party girl and burlesque dancer [another one!] with...

Miss X usually had something to sell, by the time you reached the bottom of those articles there was always a modelling agency to contact or a fund to donate to or a book to buy or a course to go on.

Hopefully they've got a system in place to stop people turning up to be vaccinated for the 10th time. All sorts of scams possible.

Judicial Review Bill being introduced to parliament today...

Did she happen to improve whilst she was going through it? (I should know that, but I can't bring myself to read it, sorry). I think the attraction of this kind of stuff is that you get to adopt a new vocabulary, complicated explanations, be privy to a body of knowledge, and preach the gospel...

It wouldn't surprise me if joining Voices of Recovery and writing something positive became a condition of doing an LP course, or part of the process to show your commitment and not incur the wrath and public humiliation of the trainer. So seen from that perspective (and I think it's a fair...

From the website: That really isn't how time management works. In fact "Do it now!" the cause of the problem - Are you getting overwhelmed by the feeling that you have to do everything now? You can't do it all now, stop feeling you have to, get organised instead. Try a time management course...

And another thing ... this probably isn't going to be the last pandemic or the worst one, so they'd better pull their finger out before the next virus comes along, or they'll have millions of long covid sufferers saying "Well if you'd taken us seriously at the time, you wouldn't be in this mess."

Well I've just watched the panorama program. Galling in the extreme to hear patients and experts unanimously calling it a new illness. The virus guy will be surprised if most people don't recover within a couple of years (based on what he knows about other post viral conditions), and expects to...

Glad you bloody told her.

:rofl: I'm pinching that remark and shall be passing it off as my own often.

She obviously thought you'd try hard enough to phone her. Maybe you could have proven her right by not trying? The answer to that is that it's not just work, PWME also don't try hard enough to have hobbies or a social life or do anything they used to enjoy. As getting-out-of-work scams go...

Perhaps because they're sick of a system that they feel pressures them into behaving like that if they want to get on?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is what it is known as in Germany. That's what's on my diagnosis from the Charite. M.E. is barely used by anybody.

Indeed.