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Breathing as a treatment for ME is a thing, recommended by some familiar names (Lapp, Cheney ... ): https://www.healthrising.org/forums/resources/breathing-techniques-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-fibromyalgia.495/ I thought I'd better give it a go about a year ago so downloaded an app and...

Yes, it looks like a bit of a stretch to me.

Done.

Oh yes. We'd have to win on this criterion.

Permit me to quote from part 4 of my blog, and my discussion with Dr Hanitsch (one of the authors of the above paper):

3 of those authors are from the Charite in Berlin, where the CFS department is based in the immunology department. One of them gave me my diagnosis. Before I went to the Charite, I had to confirm that I was more susceptible to infections, which I felt was rather unfair to those CFS sufferers who...

Well that makes it 5 years since OMF started regularly spreading messages of hope. Open Medicine Foundation (OMF)

I may have to move from the Barmer.

Many ME sufferers can't interact with the health service due to fear of death. Many of us can't go into a hospital and feel safe that we're actually going to come out alive, and even if we do, there's a very real threat that what remained of our health will have been ruined. Exactly who poses a...

If only BPS nonsense was met with this response everywhere. Hopefully it'll be a growing trend.

She talks about mitochondrial disorder, Lucinda Bateman is interviewed. Madeline's treatments include an intravenous vitamin cocktail and expensive "naturopathic" remedies. I'm suspicious of any claims to know what causes ME, and am very sceptical of naturopathic remedies and supplements etc...

I've just started listening to this, and have listened to the first two episodes. It's absolutely excellent and seems to cover a lot of ground well, the history of ME, the history of hysteria. I wasn't sure at the start, also about how the illness and treatments are described, but this is...

Shall we research whether there's a relationship between personality characteristics and cancer? Oh, sorry, that one's been done by Eysenck. And then checked here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12783934/ Well ok then, how about stomach ulcers and personality? Or something? Anything? Long...

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...