ME/CFS Alert - Llewellyn King interviews Ron Tompkins. October 2019

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  1. Trish

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    From an e-mail:

     
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    The volume of the sound drops considerably at 16:12. You're not imagining it.
     
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    I have only watched ten minutes so far but am pleased the sound quality so far is improved
    Also I find it encouraging that we now have interest from a team with neuroimaging as a focus. Hopefully we will get neuroinflammation or not demonstrated soon.
     
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    Hi, Trish - you've misspelt Tompkins in the title - might make it harder to find.
     
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    Thanks, I've corrected it.
     
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    I have to say I'm always put-off by the default of the idea that me/cfs is 'stress of any kind unresolved'. I wasn't stressed emotionally or physically when I became sick. I just gradually developed me/cfs over several months going about my business.

    Eventually I did get a big flu, but I was already so fatigued and out of it, if I didn't catch that thing I would've caught something else the next week or the week after.

    I can't help but think that retrospectively looking back to any three month period and a good chunk of people will find some major stressor and try to understand the illness through that framework.

    I know some people do get it after a major infection, but I just think the assumption that stress is at it's core doesn't really resonate with me and is unsuitably vague of overstretched.
     
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    Dreampop stress and stressors mean different things to different people a stressor for your body immune system would likely mean a viral attack or other severe injury to some members of the medical profession but others might think of emotional stress . confounding language is a bane to all in science and basic communication . of course confounding language is the hallmark of politicians and psychologists all the better to bamboozle us .
     
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    I get it, that's why i'm saying, there was no particular stressor of any kind, I just gradual became ill. It wasn't a stressful period, I wasn't overworked, no infection etc.. it was quite a nice time in my life, certainly no more than any unremarkable period in anyone's life. I suspect that's true for a number of us.
     
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