General thread on functional disorders in Sweden

[Sean]

Avoid: We don’t really know.​

Cowards. And they have they nerve to regard us as pathetic fragile snowflakes.

 

[Liie]

Presentation slideshow by Arwa Josefsson about "Funktionella besvär". Found by chance:

One interesting thing about the presentation is that she describes functional disorders as being the same thing as psychosomatic disorders.

I'm don't think the functional people usually admit this.

See page 4.

 

[Utsikt]

One interesting thing about the presentation is that she describes functional disorders as being the same thing as psychosomatic disorders.

I'm don't think the functional people usually admit this.

See page 4.

They’ve started justifying the change to the name «functional» because it meets less resistance among patients. In other words, they are optimising their gaslighting.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

they are optimising their gaslighting.

That would be wick-trimming then?

 

[The ME Inquiry Report]

More functional stuff…

The Swedish Society for General Medicine (SFAM) has devoted a large part of the latest issue of its journal AllmänMedicin to functional symptoms. Several of the authors are familiar from this thread, such as Arwa Josefsson and Carl Sjöström. They have even invited Per Fink's colleague Marianne Rosendal to write an article about Danish healthcare for functional symptoms.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to automatically translate the entire journal, but if you click on the small paper icon at the bottom left the article will open in a format that can be copied and pasted into any translation program.

Link: The journal in Swedish

To an auto-translated summary on my blog: SFAM goes all in on functional symptoms

 

[Liie]

Article in Lakartidningen, Time to modernise healthcare regarding functional disorders, Oskar Lindfors, Arwa Josefsson, Carl Sjöström

Original article in Swedish, https://lakartidningen.se/vetenskap/hog-tid-modernisera-varden-vid-funktionella-tillstand/

Response article by physicians, researchers and representatives from Swedish ME/CFS and long covid organisations:

ME/CFS and postcovid should not be classified as functional conditions

 

[Utsikt]

Response article by physicians, researchers and representatives from Swedish ME/CFS and long covid organisations:

ME/CFS and postcovid should not be classified as functional conditions

Finally someone focusing on the lack of empirical grounding of the model, the quality of the evidence of the trials, specifically the issue with combining subjective outcomes with no blinding.