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  1. Wyva

    Review The potential therapeutic approaches targeting gut health in ME/CFS: a narrative review, 2025, Hsu et al

    Full title: The potential therapeutic approaches targeting gut health in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): a narrative review Chou-Yi Hsu, Irfan Ahmad, Rana Warid Maya, Mayada Ahmed Abass, Jitendra Gupta, Abhayveer Singh, Kamal Kant Joshi, J. Premkumar, Samir Sahoo &...
  2. Sly Saint

    United Kingdom: BACP (The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)

    Chronic pain - what therapy can help with https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/what-therapy-can-help-with/chronic-pain/
  3. Sly Saint

    Comedians could be prescribed on NHS to help patients struggling with trauma: Bristol Uni

    Article in Mirror; https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/comedians-could-prescribed-nhs-help-25831867
  4. Sly Saint

    Patients with (ME/CFS) Greatly Improved Fatigue Symptoms When Treated with Oxygen-Ozone Autohemotherapy 2021, Tirelli et al

    Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Greatly Improved Fatigue Symptoms When Treated with Oxygen-Ozone Autohemotherapy Abstract (1) Background: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic syndrome characterized by fatigue as its...
  5. Andy

    UK: Guardian: "NHS to give therapy for depression before medication under new guidelines"

    "Millions of people with mild depression in England should be offered therapy, exercise, mindfulness or meditation before antidepressants, according to the first new NHS guidelines in more than a decade. Under draft guidance, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice)...
  6. Trish

    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for ME/CFS - Discussion thread

    I have done a forum search and found 9 threads about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. So you may ask, why start another one. With the removal of recommendations of GET and directive CBT for ME/CFS in the UK and some other countries' national guidelines for ME/CFS, therapists are looking...
  7. James Morris-Lent

    MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3 The buzz of the internet. Not to be a downer but this study should be considered unblinded (and uncontrolled) and has subjective outcomes. Also, everybody wants to talk about the MDMA but this study is more accurately about 'MDMA-enhanced...
  8. Andy

    Caught up in Care: Crafting Moral Subjects of Chronic Fatigue, Risor and Lillevoll, 2021

    They talk, in the abstract, about chronic fatigue only, but the patients they discuss have gone through a "CFS/ME" assessment, so may or may not have ME. Open access, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2021.1883011 This part possibly explains a bit more clearly what the...
  9. M

    Rethinking The Purpose of Diagnostics

    Initially, I intended to write this as a response in another post, but I think it deserves its own post now. These thoughts have followed me for quite some time. I'd be interested in reading what your view on this is. I often bring this up because I can't concur with this kind of logic as I...
  10. Sly Saint

    Therapists’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to uptake and engagement with therapy in long‐term conditions - Oct 2020 Moss-Morris et al

    https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12475 (only mentions 'chronic fatigue' but also LTC (long term conditions) and MUS) eta: All authors declare no conflict of interest.
  11. ME/CFS Skeptic

    What’s in the pipeline? Ongoing, registered, or planned clinical trials for ME/CFS

    Evelien and I were interested in what clinical trials are currently planned or ongoing for ME/CFS. It can take many years to conduct a clinical trial and report the results, so we wanted to know what we can expect to come out in the next years. A search of databases that register clinical...
  12. cassava7

    Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference, Rethorn et. al, 2020

    Rethorn ZD, Pettitt RW, Dykstra E, Pettitt CD (2020) Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236734. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236734 Abstract:
  13. Sly Saint

    Physical activity in a pandemic: A new treatment target for psychological therapy: Diamond and Waite June 2020

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/papt.12294 eta: paper was referenced here https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/physical-activity-in-a-pandemic-a-new-treatment-target-for-psychological-therapy
  14. Sly Saint

    Essay: No Rest - by Alicia Puglionesi

    Interesting essay 4,900 words long. full essay here https://aeon.co/essays/the-rest-cure-challenges-cherished-myths-about-a-working-body?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss-feed
  15. Sly Saint

    Blog: A totally useless therapy for benign and malign conditions – where is the difference? - Edzard Ernst

    full blog here https://edzardernst.com/2020/05/a-totally-useless-therapy-for-benign-and-malign-conditions-where-is-the-difference/ (LP amongst others springs to mind)
  16. Sly Saint

    Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Therapy?

    Challenging the Cognitive Behavioural Therapies: The Overselling of CBT's Evidence Base Jonathan Shedler - Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Therapy? 23 Jan 2015 very interesting talk; many parallels with PACE. shows that CBT in fact has very little evidence to support it for any...
  17. Dolphin

    Adverse events of exercise therapy in randomised controlled trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2019, Niemeijer et al

    https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/09/27/bjsports-2018-100461.abstract
  18. Andy

    [ME/CFS]: From Pathophysiological Insights to Novel Therapeutic Opportunities, 2019, Berk et al

    Paywall, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043661819308011 Not currently available on Sci hub.
  19. Sly Saint

    Horses for courses: choosing an evidence-based psychological therapy for your patient, 2018, David McCormack, Trudie Chalder

    Don't have access to the full article: BJPsych Advances: Volume 24, Issue 6 November 2018 , pp. 402-411 Horses for courses: choosing an evidence-based psychological therapy for your patient "There are many different approaches to choose from and many have not been subjected to rigorous...
  20. Dolphin

    Association of Thyroid Hormone Therapy W/ Quality of Life & Thyroid-Related Symptoms in Subclinical Hypothyroidism;A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2705188
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