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ME was mentioned on The One Show on Tuesday – it’s on YouTube at - - starting at 22.27 minutes in. Don't shoot the messenger!

This thread has been created by merging several threads on social prescribing BBC News: More 'social prescribers' to ease pressure on GPs. 28.01.19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46999922

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzl3w/wwis-secret-shame-shell-shock Interesting and moving in itself, interesting in parallels I saw with Me treatment - eg military believed it had to have physical cause and if not found (with technology available then) it was malingering and also...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45765767 After the airport forgot to load his self propel wheelchair, this paraplegic man chose to drag himself along the floor through the airport rather than be pushed in a 'push only' wheelchair. His reasons are that it would be humiliating & degrading to have...

Sounds very interesting: Read the whole thing at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bqjq0q I wonder if part of the reason that PWME have difficulty getting diagnosed, let alone treated, is that doctors don't have the time or the tests to deal with us. Perhaps AI plus better testing tech...

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan, author of It’s All In Your Head, is to appear on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific on 6 November: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000112j According to MEpedia, Dr O’Sullivan “published her book, It's All In Your Head, in 2015. It is a book about medically unexplained...

interesting story about a woman who was brought up speaking German and English but ability to speak English was badly affected by a cycling accident https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-45804613

Can my brain cure my back pain? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45721670 Not sure what to think of this, is it good it can prove the placebo effect or bad drs will think that a common, debilitating, unexplained often condition involving pain can be helped by tricking the mind?

BBC Wales are planning a story on ME: WAMES homepage: http://wames.org.uk/cms-english/

This is the kind of article I hate. Trying to be sympathetic but perpetuating the psychological myth. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kirsty-young-must-go-softer-on-herself-during-break-from-desert-island-discs-2pkjdbfbn Includes: I worry, though, that Young’s affliction is a form of...

7-minute video on the BBC website today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-45369402/fibromyalgia-like-red-hot-lava-radiating-through-my-body

Guardian: "Lady Gaga cancels 10 concerts, suffering from 'severe pain'" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/feb/03/lady-gaga-cancels-concerts-suffering-severe-pain

Pretty good article on BBC news website about recent parliamentary debate “Chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME, is incorrectly treated, lacks sufficient funding and is poorly understood by many in the medical profession - according to an MP who has been campaigning in Parliament to change...

Someone on Phoenix Rising has posted a message saying that there is a programme called 'M.E. and me' on the BBC News Channel tomorrow morning (28th May) at 0930. I've asked if they have a link. Does anyone here know about it?

Segment features Emma Donohoe, Charles Shepherd and Sophie Cooklyn. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b19jww Segment starts at 2:34:24, ends 2:59:43

Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment 'should be withdrawn' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44004882# A common treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome should be scrapped immediately, according to one of the UK's leading experts in the illness. Dr Charles Shepherd says graded exercise therapy...

"Your schedule for another packed day of ME Awareness The main event: 7.00am Newsbeat Documentary 'M.E. and me' on BBC iPlayer (and hopefully YouTube) presented by Emma Donohoe. 8.10am BBC1 Breakfast Show Dr Eliana Lacerda a researcher from the M.E. Biobank and Emma Donohoe on the 'red sofa'...

I don't think there is an existing thread for this yet? There are various posts about it in other threads but thought it might be useful to have its own thread. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2018/19/me-and-me Now available to view at...

An interesting perspective on ECT, in which our good friend Edward Shorter gets a mention: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180502-the-surprising-benefits-of-electroshock-therapy-or-ect

23-second clip of a segment of Michael Sharpe's appearance on Victoria Derbyshire Talking therapies and exercise for #ME are "not magic cures but useful treatments": Professor Sharpe on his report Does anyone have the full broadcast?