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Video: Psychosomatic Illness Part 3: Elliot Nicholson 2018

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Sly Saint, Dec 28, 2022.

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  1. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    eta: obviously not a recommendation.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-LeSi-3SM


     
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    https://www.youtube.com/@elliotnicholson5117/about

    "Description
    I make tutorial style videos. My areas of interest are maths, physics, philosophy, medical science and clinical medicine.

    My videos are often unscripted and I apologise if this isn’t your cup of tea.
    I far prefer making the unscripted ones to the scripted ones, although i realise they are less professional.

    Do please point out any mistakes you notice in the comment sections.

    Thank you for watching."
     
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    Not a recommendation.

    I have listened to the first part on CFS/ME. He's clueless.

    He says CFS/ME is profound muscle weakness all over the body caused by psychological problems, so is psychosomatic.
    He says to be diagnosed the profound muscle weakness has to be so bad that you are wheelchair or bed bound.
    And he recommends Unrest 3 times.

    He does acknowledge that CFS/ME is not the same as TATT (tired all the time). For TATT rule out physical causes - cancer, diabetes, hypothyroid and anaemia. Then rule out depression - he claims depression can show as either low mood or tiredness.
    That's it on CFS/ME, summed up in 6 minutes. No mention of other symptoms other than muscle weakness and tiredness, no mention of PEM. Useless.

    Then he moves on to FM which I haven't watched.

    It's part of a series of videos under the general heading Psychiatry.
     
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    He looks to have possibly hundreds of videos over a range of topics on his channel made over a number of years and has some 99k.subscribers.
     
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  7. Sly Saint

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    a suggestion that he reads the new NICE guideline and a link to it might be a good start.

    don't know if Youtube allows it but a link to BrokenBattery aka
    @Adam pwme channel would also be good.

    eta:
    yes that was quite disturbing as it sets it up as an example of psychosomatic illness.
    I watched part one; where he goes into detail about IBS and also MS, although I think he was citing MS as an example of non-psychosomatic illness but you can easily miss that as he goes into some detail (not sure of the accuracy of most of it).
    scary to think that so many people will take what he says at face value.
     
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