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  1. Mike Dean
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    Monitoring app - Visible - a platform "designed for any invisible illness that benefits from resting and pacing - including ME/CFS & Long Covid."

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/28/long-covid-the-patient-whos-made-an-app-to-track-its-symptoms
    Post by: Mike Dean, Nov 28, 2022 in forum: Monitoring and pacing
  2. Mike Dean
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    Publication bias and the evidence base for CBT/GET for ME

    It's pretty basic, but sorting trials into those done by BPS adherents versus independent replications ought to be interesting. I can remember a...
    Post by: Mike Dean, May 10, 2021 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  3. Mike Dean
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    Who is Simon Wessely?

    He always reminds me of Widmerpool in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. How long till it's Lord Wessely?
    Post by: Mike Dean, May 7, 2021 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  4. Mike Dean
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    Independent advisory group for the full update of the Cochrane review on exercise therapy and ME/CFS (2020), led by Hilda Bastian

    Not sure if this info has been posted here or elsewhere [MEDIA]
    Post by: Mike Dean, Apr 23, 2021 in forum: 2021 Cochrane Exercise Therapy Review
  5. Mike Dean
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    Twitter account will provide headlines & quotes from the 1955 Royal Free Hospital outbreak to the day when each headline appeared - 65 years later

    This would be very useful, Chris, but you've listed A New Clinical Entity? (1956) twice.
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 23, 2020 in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19, not Long Covid)
  6. Mike Dean
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    Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and Morals: A Tale of Two Illnesses (2019) BMJ blog - and published responses

    I think it goes back earlier still. Malingering has been suspected in the military throughout history, and still gets a court martial in the US....
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 21, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  7. Mike Dean
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    Michael Sharpe: Mind, Medicine and Morals: A Tale of Two Illnesses (2019) BMJ blog - and published responses

    A critical paper [eta] by Fishbain attributes 1ary and 2ary "gain" to Freud: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1058-9139(05)80274-8/pdf Interesting...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 20, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  8. Mike Dean
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    BMJ editorial: Updated NICE Guideline on chronic fatigue syndrome, 2020, Stokes and Wade

    It's a more than a suspicion. They have said that they conduct trials to show their treatments work.
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 17, 2020 in forum: 2020 UK NICE ME/CFS Guideline
  9. Mike Dean
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    Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

    Reminds me of Oscar Wilde's quip about literary critics on Hamlet - are they mad or just pretending to be?
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 15, 2020 in forum: Long Covid news
  10. Mike Dean
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    The Prospects of the Two-Day Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test (CPET) in ME/CFS Patients: A Meta-Analysis, Eun-Jin Lim, 2020

    They were thorough and picked up over 200 studies, so they used strict inclusion criteria as a filter - see the flowchart in the text. I don't see...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 15, 2020 in forum: ME/CFS research
  11. Mike Dean
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Thanks for the link. Shows how long it is since I looked at the Spanish pandemic, as I hadn't come across this one. It's plausible, and better...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 7, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    Prediction of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in mothers of children with cancer based on empathy and experienced guilt, Afsari et al, 2020

    And the article is in Persian, so it's hard to see whether they bothered to diagnose CFS....
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 7, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    @Mithriel The 1918 flu epidemic hit healthy adults (age 20-40) really badly. Nobody knows why.
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 7, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    Prediction of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in mothers of children with cancer based on empathy and experienced guilt, Afsari et al, 2020

    O.M.G. FFS.
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 7, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  15. Mike Dean
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    The future and funding of UK ME/CFS charities

    Don't think you did, but yes that's always an argument against large orgs such as Oxfam. On the other hand, Oxfam is highly successful in...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 6, 2020 in forum: General Advocacy Discussions
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    The future and funding of UK ME/CFS charities

    Would be nice, but Forward ME has been around for a few years and the comments from a year ago in this thread didn't seem very hopeful. And I...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 6, 2020 in forum: General Advocacy Discussions
  17. Mike Dean
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    The future and funding of UK ME/CFS charities

    An old discussion, but the issue of competing and overlapping UK charities and membership orgs won't go away without active measures. I know some...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 6, 2020 in forum: General Advocacy Discussions
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Just an educated guess - based on known associations between the Guardian, SMC, SW & Goldacre. But this really does belong in the "Who is SW?"...
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 5, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  19. Mike Dean
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    Thanks for the detail, @AR68. Possibly the understatement of the millennium. Maybe to be discussed on the "Who is SW?" thread.
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 5, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  20. Mike Dean
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    BPS attempts at psychologizing Long Covid

    @Barry 100%
    Post by: Mike Dean, Dec 5, 2020 in forum: Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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