https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/preventing-mental-illness.html This is an opinion piece that endorses the Biopsychosocial model for...
Some revelations about shenanigans at NICE - the IAPT team is in charge of the NICE guidelines for ME/CFS - as flagged up by Hope 4 Fibro & ME...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46999922 The number of workers trained to prescribe social activities, like exercise groups and art classes,...
Not sure whether this is really relevant, but the reference to kynurenine looked interesting. NB participants include some dodgy people, e.g....
I'm currently working my way through this tome, so thought I'd start a thread on it so that anyone else who has read it (and those who haven't)...
I was introduced to a diagnosis today that I found a bit disturbing. It’s called Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome, and the chatter around...
Fibromyalgia: A Short Commentary Frederick Wolfe and Brian Walitt Walitt is at the NIH working on the NIH Post-infections ME/CFS Study who...
A short piece. It's not much of a defence. It is now 40 years since George Engel, a psychiatrist from the University of Rochester, New York, NY,...
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/05/597505825/report-ineffective-treatment-often-prescribed-for-lower-back-pain Wherein The...
Raised on another thread. https://dpac.uk.net/2018/02/protest-against-iapt-therapies/ I have mixed feelings about this. "The Alliance for...
Abstract Objective To investigate associations of physical activity at age 11 years with chronic disabling fatigue (CDF) at ages 13 and 16 years....
This is a topic I've been thinking about and discussing with friends for a little while, and I'd discarded it to the "pretty much a lost hope"...
A Norwegian medical doctor Henrik Vogt (with a biopsychosocial approach to ME) has tweeted possibly the meanest display of points scoring that...
Also mentions ME and GET. The civil servant who leads the government’s work and health unit has sparked fresh concerns that the new disability...
This was from last year at some point, but it was recently mentioned again on Facebook and we didn't seem to have a thread for it here (although...
Article from earlier in the year. The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than...
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