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Maybe catastrophizing isn't a trait after all. I agree with @perchance dreamer that the term is insulting. Do psychologists now what they mean by it? It's the end of the world when I move a finger. Sounds ridiculous? The ultimate bias of psychologists: there is nothing wrong with the patient, so...

The Beentjes 2025 paper does mention insuline resistance several times.

The Netherlands is close: enough clay in my surroundings, just have to find out where to dig?;)

Can I have a portion of clay please?

4 consecutive daily sessions. Going to a testing facility 4 days in a row. For me that would have been a reason not to take part in this study.

Neither does medication intolerance happen in all patients, but how often are we tested on that. I got a 4 hour glucose tolerance test, mid nineties last century. My glucose went up to 10.8, while 11 was the limit for diabetes. Nobody did further testing on insuline. Probably the same for many here.

Could there be involvement of insuline resistance that makes alcohol react faster and more furious?

Why are those sedentary people called Healthy Controls?

Systrom and Novak becoming regressive on deconditioning too. Don't they read papers and comments from other authors anymore. And what about the feelings of the patients? One small step backwards for researchers, a giant leap backwards for patients. I really hope you (and others) can jumpstart...

Will they ever see this? @Hutan

Authors say it's functional, docs say no it's not. Patients say treatment isn't working, but the stigma is. Stop calling it FND and believe the patient that something is not functioning.

Have a bunch of people actually thought about these kind of questionaires? Their brainfog must be worse than mine.

How on earth can you answer: "I suffered trauma as a child" with: (Never), Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Always.

A question for members with more knowledge: Is the way the authors define deconditioning right? Other researchers tried very hard to get rid of that term.

:hug::hug: very gentle ones. Have you ever felt the need to make changes in a text because of those threats?

Harming so many people, knowingly.

Threatening to sue people into submission, just for writing a book? Is Sir Simon still worthy of a knighthood if this is true? Freedom of the press for me, but not for thee?

Sorry @Trish it took so long to answer your question about catastrophizing ME/CFS by doctors. I understand you had to ask, on it's own it does not make sense. I had to think deep and hard to try to explain. All health care workers were taught ME/CFS is "between the ears". Study completed and...

"Impaired verbal memory performance"was the main conclusion of the abstract. I can't look behind the paywall, but isn't that a very limited description of cognitive difficulties. Does that mean 10574 paper reviewed, mostly poor quality, and the review itself is quite inadequate too? Impaired...

Catastrophizing ME/CFS? @Nightsong