personality

https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/9823/1/Pheby, Derek Risk factors for severe ME & CFS.pdf 2009 paper Derek Pheby and Lisa Saffron Abstract ME/CFS is a serious illness affecting several hundred thousand British people. Some 25% of people with ME/CFS may be severely ill (housebound...

This diagnosis belongs in the bin - it's much more likely to be applied to women

Long COVID-19 Enigma: Unmasking the Role of Distinctive Personality Profiles as Risk Factors Amsterdam, Dana; Kupershmidt, Aviv; Avinir, Asia; Matalon, Ron; Ohana, Ofir; Feder, Omri; Shtrozberg, Shai; Choshen, Guy; Ablin, Jacob Nadav; Elkana, Odelia BACKGROUND The COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.08.23291154v1 Neurodivergence as a risk factor for Post-Covid-19 Syndrome Rachael K. Raw, Jon Rees, Amy Pearson, David R. Chadwick doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.08.23291154 This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed Abstract...

Abstract: Background: Personality traits are relevant for pain perception in persistent pain disorders, although they have not been studied in depth in sensitized and nonsensitized patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Objective: To explain and compare the personality profile of patients...

NEO-FFI (Five factor inventory, Borkenau and Ostendorf1993; Costa and McCrae1992). The following study assessed the stability of the Big Five personalty traits, by asking people to watch a 10 minute emotion-inducing film, and then think of happy or sad times while listening to an appropriate...

Can be downloaded for free at these links: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3100418/1/201310670_June2020.pdf https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.815650

Full title: Fatigue-Related Cognitive-Behavioral Factors in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Comparison with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Survivors of Adult-Onset Cancer Paywall, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jayao.2020.0094 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1089/jayao.2020.0094

https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6354

Hardly a new paper, but I can't see this paper as a title on any existing thread. It's interesting to read Wessely himself state that they found no evidence for CFS/ME patients having negative attitudes to psychiatry, nor for having a particular 'perfectionist personality': Sci-hub link...

(was going to post this on another thread I set up, but the title to that thread has been changed so am posting this separately) full title The Black Box of Meta-Analysis: Personality Change August 11, 2019...

(Not a recommendation.) To cure my chronic pain, I had to learn about the links between mind and body. The Guardian 1 Jul 2019 The BPS model of chronic pain proposed by Sarno, unresolved trauma etc, is what Howard Schubiner et al are suggesting is also applicable to ME/CFS. (As I have...

Copied from the New Zealand thread This is the paper she is referring to: The pathway from glandular fever to chronic fatigue syndrome: can the cognitive behavioural model provide the map? I think the paper is worth a discussion because it is one of the few papers that actually tried to test...

Thought some here might find this interesting. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359105318822045

There's a new film on the way about treating pain with mind-body medicine, (NOT a recommendation); "THIS MIGHT HURT is a feature-length documentary that explores the chronic pain epidemic by following a group of patients as they attempt a last-resort treatment called mind-body medicine."...

At the Association of New Zealand ME Societies (ANZMES)'s AGM on 10 November 2018, Dr Ros Vallings presented an ME Research Update. Dr Vallings is the Medical Advisor to ANZMES and is the only specialist ME doctor in New Zealand. A summary of the AGM itself is on the New Zealand thread. One...

September 18, 2018 article in the Globe and Mail about how the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was developed. Interesting, as the developers started this at their kitchen table - an informal start, having no degrees in psychology or psychiatry. According to the author, professor Merve Emre...

This paper was mentioned on another thread here.

Merged thread Why Attributing 'Type A' Personalities to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Needs to Stop "I recently had an experience with a relative that caught me off guard. In passing, she mentioned reading somewhere that it’s mostly “type A” individuals who develop ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis)...

Old Familiar, Deare and Chalder excelling themselves here. Scores highly on the "drivelometer". PwME "score more highly on neuroticism and unhealthy perfectionism" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08870440802403863?scroll=top&needAccess=true