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More functional stuff… The Swedish Society for General Medicine (SFAM) has devoted a large part of the latest issue of its journal AllmänMedicin to functional symptoms. Several of the authors are familiar from this thread, such as Arwa Josefsson and Carl Sjöström. They have even invited Per...

We're up to 1,951 signatures—can we reach 2,000 tonight? Sign here: https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/dra-tillbaka-kunskapsstodet-for-postinfektiosa-tillstand-nu

In-depth analysis :rofl:

Thank you! I will arrange for an English translation of the text and update the petition.

Yes! That's great!

I think that the more people who sign, the better, because more than just Swedes can understand what a big problem these guidelines are. Ask if there is anything you don't understand or feel you need to know before signing.

Please sign!! Thread 'Petition: 2025 Sweden ”Withdraw national guidelines for post-infectious conditions now!”'

Please help us stop guidelines that ignore risks and recommend GET (among other things)! Translation of petition: Additional information (autotranslated): Socialstyrelsens kunskapsstöd Sign petition here: Dra tillbaka kunskapsstödet för postinfektiösa tillstånd nu!

It has been almost two years since the Appeals Board for Ethical Review reported the Västerbotten Region's ME project to the public prosecutor. I have been in contact with the prosecutor's office, which informs me that the preliminary investigation is still ongoing. Autotranslated blog...

The ME clinic is still closed after three years of "temporary closure." According to its own statements, the region is doing nothing to reopen it. Autotranslated blog: The ME clinic in Västerbotten remains closed

Nina E. Steinkopf has written an important response to the problematic article on functional symptoms in Läkartidningen. However, they did not include it because she is not a physician, so now the article is available on her blog instead. Direct link to Steinkopf's article (Autotranslated): An...

Even more on functional symptoms to come, in Sweden: • November 11-12, 2025 Nordic Network Meeting - Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Functional Neurological Symptoms. Michael Sharpe, Helene Hegeland and Carl Sjöström among others [program] • November 19-21, 2025 District Medical Meeting...

Thank you! :inlove:

There is indeed a campaign going on right now. My comment on the article (autotranslated): Pseudoscientific trend spread by Läkartidningen

I've made a separate thread for functional disorders in Sweden because unfortunately there is some kind of campaign going on right now :sick: Link: General thread on functional disorders in Sweden

At this very moment, a PhD program is underway at the Faculty of Medicine at Linköping University called "Persistent Symptoms: Mind-Body perspectives". Several familiar BPS-lobby names are in the list of lecturers both Swedish and international. List of speakers and link to program and...

Unfortunately, I recognize a lot in what you write. I also think that people who have been gaslighted and tormented by health care for a long time are very receptive to the kind and understanding care that Sjöström describes that doctors should use to "convert" their patients.

Unfortunately, it feels like we need a separate thread on functional disorders in Sweden now. I take my starting point in a podcast that one of Sweden's medical associations (Svensk förening för allmänmedicin, SFAM) produces and which relatively recently released an episode on functional...

Elin Lindsäter has been recruited as an expert at the National Board of Health and Welfare on "stress- and fatigue-related conditions". More info in the thread: 'Big news from Sweden: Fatigue diagnosis to be disappeared'

The National Board of Health and Welfare's work on exhaustion disorder (ED) risks negatively affecting care and support for people with post-covid and ME. Elin Lindsäter from the Oslo Network has been brought in as an expert. Read more on the blog (autotranslated) Lindsäter in the National...