I've got copies of all 10 now, in HD.Probably worth having a couple of people saving copies of the videos.
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I've got copies of all 10 now, in HD.Probably worth having a couple of people saving copies of the videos.
Oh good. Dr Vincent Deary has the cure in video 8 at around 4:20.
Yup. Basically don't tell the patient what you really think, and feed them some bullshit about CBT also being used for "real" diseases. Without, of course, mentioning that the rationale for the CBT and the application of it is completely bass-ackwards. CBT is used elsewhere for acceptance of chronic illness, but the psychobabblers use it to teach us to deny our illness.Do these homilies follow a bell curve? starts off ok, caring but a bit wet. Then things seem a bit off, definitely picking up emerging sub-text, then down it goes as all pretence of objectivity is abandoned and the same old same old is trotted out.
On video 6 at about 19.20 the stratagy is revealled.
Yup. Basically don't tell the patient what you really think, and feed them some bullshit about CBT also being used for "real" diseases. Without, of course, mentioning that the rationale for the CBT and the application of it is completely bass-ackwards. CBT is used elsewhere for acceptance of chronic illness, but the psychobabblers use it to teach us to deny our illness.
BBC article 18 October: Cognitive therapy study hope for hypochondria patients
Ah yes the BBC - the propaganda wing of anything "elite". Can anyone take anything they spew seriously?
BBC article 18 October: Cognitive therapy study hope for hypochondria patients
That looks well worth a thread. Extra CBT vs just usual medical care in a non-blinded trial, and they get only an extra 7% of hypochondrpriorities's reporting 'normal' levels of anxiety? If that was self-reported, it looks like another poor result being hyped as a success.
Maybe it's because I was being educated during the peak of the CBT/bio psychosocial/psych bubble, but I'm just amazed at how little value there is in these interventions. That result is being used to argue that more money needs to go into training people for CBT?
So many thing I want to take the time to read closely and think about. Dodginess everywhere imo - it's hard to concentrate on one's priorities.
ME / CFS Research Newcastle · 1,088 like this 10 hours ago ·
Team meeting today so very exciting. When the team meet up we all discuss the various aspects of the recruitment - how this is going (which is very well at the moment we have almost 50 patients included in the study and 30 who have completed all the assessments ( which are numerous) and the plan for 45 to have completed by Christmas.
Our only problem at the moment is that we only have one control subject - so we need to recruit more controls (something that is proving more difficult than we had expected as we need our controls to be sedentary I.e. fairly inactive).
Today we discussed how we are securing the data we are collecting (there is nothing worse than collecting lots of wonderful data to find you haven't saved it correctly !) and what data we are data basing (this helps with the subsequent analysis - getting everything correctly nd accurately entered onto a database can save hours of analysis time in the future).
We also looked at the preliminary data from some of the MRI scans (which are using new ways of looking at things) to decide how best to interpret the result.
I think Julia Newton and her group are doing some great work on figuring out just what our fatigue and OI are, and where they originate.Look up their essay on "Abnormalities in pH handling by peripheral muscle and potential regulation by the autonomic nervous system in chronic fatigue syndrome, 2009--I put "mitochondria" for "peripheral muscle". And then this one: "Home orthostatic training in chronic fatigue syndrome--a randomized, placebo-controlled feasibility study," 2010. I have been doing the exercise described there for about 3 months now, and it has significantly improved my OI, and is, I think, beginning to improve my exercise tolerance. And remember Nancy Klimas' comment on a gene expression study that first the ANS tanks, and then brings down the immune system with it. Since the HHS is obviously aiming to trash us, it will be up to us to try to improve our own state. Try it! Chris
10 November 2013
ME/CFS Research Newcastle
Action for ME came to visit us in the north east last week to hear about our work. Take a look at the blog from their CEO Sonya Chowdry on www.actionforme.org
Rather an interesting blog attached to the latest post from Newcastle. The blog can be found here (link in article don't work Capt'n )
Does anybody find youtube video presentations easy to watch, listen to and understand?
I most certainly don't.
I normally ignore anything presented in this way, no matter how useful it might be.
The first one is giving me a link to a 1.75 hour lecture on finding allah and presenting jesus......I'm not watching that!