Uplifts and hassles are related to worsening in chronic fatigue syndrome A prospective study, 2023, Friedberg et al

[RedFox]

Aside from being far too debilitated to even contemplate the journey to watch ducks on a pond, there are reasons why watching ducks on a pond could be a hassle, and not an uplift:

1) no pond nearby 2) no transport to a pond, 3) the pond is now a condominium development, 4) no ducks; they have died off due to pesticides, or habitat encroachment, 5) drought/ climate change has dried up the pond, 6) thousands of other pwME, having taken the same advice, are milling around the pond, making duck viewing impossible......

ETA: "too"

A local park had so many ducks people complained about it. They were probably fed up with seeing poop everywhere. So they killed some of them. Pretty sad.

 

[Shadrach Loom]

A local park had so many ducks people complained about it. They were probably fed up with seeing poop everywhere. So they killed some of them. Pretty sad.

Culling is a fairly standard aspect of wildlife management, though. I’ve eaten too many ducks to feel guilty if some of them make the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the park.

 

[Wonko]

A local park had so many ducks people complained about it. They were probably fed up with seeing poop everywhere. So they killed some of them. Pretty sad.

Surely, as the ducks are content and it's just some people who are not happy about that, in order to increase the contentedness in the park it'd make much more sense to cull the unhappy people.

It'd also be more profitable as dead ducks generate zero to negative income for the local council, but dead people..... generate £3000 - £6000 each for local businesses.

Cull the people, y'know it makes more sense.

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

Published as —

Uplifts and hassles are related to worsening in chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study (2023, Journal of Translational Medicine)

 

[Ash]

What about how these researchers have been intimately involved in robbing us of our “Uplifts” their own definition, and the salary related type since so many of us have also been denied employment by the debilitating symptoms that THEY are telling everyone it’s dangerous to even consider alleviating for us, lest we turn around and ask for even more of this “apparently” highly addictive ‘MedicalCare’ (TM) drug we’d all “apparently” go absolutely fucking wild for at first sniff, if not for a strict policy of containment, and “reliable” “screening” ….

Huh?
I want my “Uplifts” all of them what have you done with them!!!

 

[Hoopoe]

This study seems to be an exercise in measuring improvement or worsening of the illness in terms of uplifts and hassles, and then arguing that maybe it's the uplifts and hassles that are causing an alteration in illness severity.

Uplifts and hassles can be just about anything: https://unit3and4psychology.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/hassles_and_uplifts_scale.pdf

Even things closely related to chronic illness like concerns about one's health and physical abilities can be counted as hassles. No surprise there is a correlation between changes in illness severity and these things.