Psychological predictors of fatigue, work and social adjustment, and psychological distress in rheumatology outpatients: A short report. 2019 Chalder

Matcham, F., Ali, S., Irving, K., & Chalder, T. (2019). Psychological predictors of fatigue, work and social adjustment, and psychological distress in rheumatology outpatients: A short report. European Journal of Health Psychology, 26(1), 25-29.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-31300-004

 

Ill people tend to feel ill.

 

I thought adults were supposed to grow out of " make-believe"

 

Kindly leave that subject alone. We've had enough controversy with it already.

 

Oh yeah, that. Totally a real thing. Gotta score really high on the "fatigue acceptance" testing machine which totally tests for real fatigue acceptance psychobullshittomarkers. Everyone knows fatigue is like vampires: if you don't invite it into your body, it can't enter. Or something like that. The official SI unit is a gullible.

It's remarkable that nearly every one of Chalder's research papers shows clear evidence that sick people are actually pretty good at self-reporting their severity of illness, even long-term. Weird choice to reach the opposite conclusion but she does have a habit of showing how Wessely's "predictor" of illness severity being strength of belief is a simple reversal of cause and effect, in other words: made-up BS.

So close to getting it, somehow always looking the wrong way. Is it the rain that causes clouds? Or the clouds that cause rain? Well, have you ever seen rain without clouds? Obviously not, but you have seen clouds without rain. Can't argue with that logic.

 

What even is fatigue acceptance ?

Strange that they so often talk about self reported illness beliefs but never about self reported recovery beliefs, it's like Schrodinger's questionnaire that simultaneously does and does not reflect reality.

 

Does their illness model reflect how they see patients?

Or does it reflect their intellectual level? The level where correlation and causation are a difficult concept to comprehend.

 

Those poor, weak people who just can’t cope with life....pesky, irritating little things. If only they could understand they need to be more like me........ I would never respond that way to being ill. In fact, I don’t think I could ever get an illness that wouldn’t go away. I’m too self-aware and my cognitive strategies are so brilliant, I would be better in no time.

Now where’s my halo?

 

This can all truly be summed as a fundamental attribution error. Describing normal reaction to abnormal circumstances as abnormal simply out of ignorance of the reality of the abnormal circumstances.

Maximum irony coming from people who definitely should be aware of and conscious of avoiding it. And yet here we are.

 

What a screwy skewed schema. (Psychology is a recent little brother of philosophy and in this case, completely irrelevant and a huge waste of tax money.)

So-called objectivity? Where? Because they use phrases? Da-da-ga-ga has more meaning.

 

https://ehps.net/meet-the-expert/

Rona Ross Morris is one of the experts.

 

X is an unknown quantity and a spurt is a drip under pressure!

 

I thought it was "ex" is a has-been etc

 

Took me a while to get the joke here .

 

I think so much of this kind of "research" has a hidden agenda - to find ways to reduce health costs, and to hell with the real costs to patients of their ill health. An easy win is for 'science' to so supposedly show that patients' own attitudes are the problem, and so architects of their own misfortunes. If the cheapskate 'treatment' doesn't work, it's the patient's fault.

 

Can you explain the joke?

 

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