gaslighting

Sound familiar?

Moderator note: Use this thread to discuss the possibility of an ME/CFS or ME/CFS-like illness following Covid-19. Initial posts have been moved from the Coronavirus - world-wide spread and control thread. (Up to post #840 so far) *************** It's interesting that in the 2003 SARS...

In the coming months, the BPS brigades will attempt to promote their alternative model to people suffering from post-COVID-19 illness. There will be papers and editorials, but also less formal attempts at promoting various treatment approaches and a "different" way to think about long COVID...

https://www.acat.me.uk/reformulation.php?issue_id=56&article_id=556

The article is behind a paywall but if you sign up for an account you can get two articles free each week. I have attached screenshots of the first half of the article to give a flavour of its content.

Some of what we face as pwME has naming that I wasn't aware of.... Essentially they amount to the relative insurmountability of an overwhelming blitzkrieg of BS: Bullshit asymmetry principle (Brandolini's Law) "Bullshit" on @Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit?wprov=sfta1 Gish...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cz0y [my bold] This may well be relevant to the discussion on MUS @dave30th.

or "Stop telling women they're mad when they're really ill"

Paywall, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2751253 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.3043

Programme on how women were disbelieved for years when they said their breast implants were making them ill. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/

https://www.meaction.net/2019/03/23/our-community-will-not-suffer-stigma-and-distortion/

https://notthesciencebit.net/2019/03/21/if-you-spend-20-years-gaslighting-your-patients-perhaps-you-should-think-twice-before-accusing-them-of-trolling-you/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Some of you may have heard about Dr. Pimentel. He's done some great things for IBS sufferers and is a good example of a doctor who cares. Link to the interview It's worth a read. Basically he's saying that physicians are about 10-20 years behind the current research.. Very similar problems to...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180523-how-gender-bias-affects-your-healthcare

Anger that burns white hot. Gaslighting does that to me. Im going to keep some info here for future reference. So here is info on UNUM. Unum Group is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Through its three operating segments — Unum US, Unum UKand Colonial Life — the company is a leading...