Co-creating recovery in CFS/ME: A reflexive exploration of a Rebuilding your Life programme

Shall we have a whip round to buy him a nightie?

 

Thanks, @Trish, for your effort! That's very informative.

 

Not to mention the money spending rankings and rubbish PhD rankings so idiots like this can call themselves "Doctor". Socktor more like!

 

Honestly, it would be just wonderful: positive thoughts and - ca-ching! Then I'm rich, healthy, beautiful and...whatever...

..although I would be very happy about the health alone...

And honestly, I tried these things in the past. I was a short time into "positive thinking". I also tried self-hypnosis. It wasn't expensive, so why not give it a try? It just didn't work. And I'm most certainly sure I didn't fail since I didn't believe or thought positively enough.

I also know religious, esoteric and guru-like groups. It's not for me. In some cases it's even dangerous, so I'm always a bit suspicious. This RyB group makes me suspicious and uncomfortable. I mistrust NLP although many people swear by it.

For me it's unbelievable something like this is publicly funded (via taxes). ME science really could need any cent for real research.

 

Wasn't that the trade of the guy who made the mounds of people parts in hellraiser?

 

It's all Me Me Me isn't it? (please can I request a Barf emoji?) Just like the rest of the Psycho lot.

 

@ladycatlover Allow me.

It lacks a certain graphic quality but the sentiment is there.

 

I think Social Sculpture might be what Marcel Duchamp did and signed 'R Mutt'. Very creative

 

Slightly off-topic, but if you will allow me..
My sister-in-law sent me an email a month ago saying she had just heard about the Lightning Process, and it sounded very exciting- and had I? I didn’t reply because I didn’t know how to without potentially causing upset...
But I talked with her recently, and she had gone away and done some reading. She apologised for suggesting it to me and said she was appalled that this was being promoted.

My jaw hit the floor! A very pleasant surprise - particularly given that she has been studying psychotherapy!

So maybe there is hope that the message about these ‘therapies’ is finally changing..

 

That's fantabulous!

Why not ask her what she thinks about the above paper on social sculpture? Psychotherapy isn't at all like "social sculpture" - she'd probably be horrified by it. But don't feel you have to of course.

 

and that it is an NHS service makes it even worse. If it was a private clinic then it's evil but not as worrying. But being nhs takes it to the next level - Disney villain scale of evil

 

This sounds like the study that AFME made the centre piece of their "Severe ME Symposium" day in 2014. I had an frank exchange of views with George Lewith that day. HE has since passed away. I was hoping that this has gone with him but obviously not.

 

Found another poster

 

This is an entirely inappropriate comment. It insinuates that girlieness is shameful and insulting, and furthermore associates it with non-seriousness and bad methodology. Neither of these insinuations has any basis in reality.

Many scientists are girlie. Yes, it's possible to be girlie AND to use controlled methodology to reduce risk of bias. And amazingly, girlie scientists are just as smart as non-girlie scientists. Perhaps if we had more such scientists, we would see fewer stereotypically feminine images being used inappropriately to shame bad methodology.

Come on Jonathan, the methodology is shameful enough on its own. Argue on the merits, not "ad feminam". There's no place for that here.

 

"Recovery isn’t a
possibility – it’s a
certainty.
It just is…and I
am…"

How inspiring.

"Due to its outstanding positive results..."

Where?