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  1. chipmunk1

    Guardian goes BPS on Fibromyalgia (Lady Gaga)

    BPS = British Psych Scam
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    Guardian goes BPS on Fibromyalgia (Lady Gaga)

    the childhood trauma story is an oldie but goodie. I wonder if anyone has ever been cured by these ideas? I mean really cured not 'it helped me so much to understand more about myself "cured" '
  3. chipmunk1

    What Psychological Topics Need to Be Researched?

    I would like to see a MRI study looking for signs of brain activity in psychobabblers.
  4. chipmunk1

    ME/CFS (CFS/ME!) on BBC "Today" Programme NOW - can anyone tune in

    LP does not treat the body/change reality. It attempts to change the perception of a person. People can be brainwashed to believe anything if they want to be brainwashed. If people want to believe in LP they will find it effective or at least report it to be effective. The reality and this...
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    ME/CFS (CFS/ME!) on BBC "Today" Programme NOW - can anyone tune in

    Good point. Who said that the placebo effect isn't helpful? The next trial we will see will be the PLACEBO trial.
  6. chipmunk1

    Embargo broken: Bristol University Professor to discuss trial of quack cfs tx

    one could ask the promoters of this therapy the same questions? -Do you feel you can influence your own finances with LP? Yes No Maybe - Do you believe you can get better/resolve your issues? Yes No Maybe - What do you hope to achieve from selling the course? - When you have discovered a way...
  7. chipmunk1

    Cyberchondria - costing the NHS millions

    tell him you found it on Pubmed instead of Google.
  8. chipmunk1

    Cyberchondria - costing the NHS millions

    I wonder what would happen if you told the doctor you think you suffer from cyberchondria because you read about it on the internet and you are sure you have it and you must receive treatment for this serious mental illness.
  9. chipmunk1

    Cyberchondria - costing the NHS millions

    Cyberchondria is the fear that a patient could become informed by accessing the internet. My impression is that most cyberchondriac patients experience the symptoms first and start to worry later and consult Dr. Google looking for answers.
  10. chipmunk1

    Examples of how psychological causes have been postulated for many medical conditions

    broken leg (2011) :bang-head: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1387736/My-broken-leg-healed-half-time--I-meditated.html lupus (2007) :eek: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802090644.htm
  11. chipmunk1

    Examples of how psychological causes have been postulated for many medical conditions

    still today by some.. https://bpsmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1751-0759-2-18
  12. chipmunk1

    Examples of how psychological causes have been postulated for many medical conditions

    it's either stress or repressed emotions. Stress as a factor in disease was heavily promoted by the tobacco industry probably to cover up the fact that smoking causes cancer and heart disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036703/ repressed emotions is based on freudian ideas...
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    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    maybe this one? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/07/20/babylonian-neurology-psychiatry/#.WbFBb8hJbcs
  14. chipmunk1

    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    if you are unemployed you are ill because you don't work if you are employed you are ill because you don't want to go to work if you are unmarried you are ill because you are single if you are married you are ill because your marriage is not happy if you think your marriage is happy you are in...
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    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    https://www.fnd2017.org/FND-Course-2017-Files/Program_FNDwithFaculty.pdf :nervous: That would be interesting.
  16. chipmunk1

    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    if there is an abusive experience 10 years ago and symptoms start today there is zero causality between these two events.
  17. chipmunk1

    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    Who invented 'Free Association' ? Sigmund Freud of course. It is Psychoanalysis. One does not gain understanding using pseudoscience. http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/research/n182.xml At least they admit indirectly that they are still Freudians. there are only two possibilities: You agree...
  18. chipmunk1

    The role of high expectations of self and social desirability in emotional processing in IBS

    One could say psychogenic medicine is the IBS of academia. Frequent output, low quality. No known cure.
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    The role of high expectations of self and social desirability in emotional processing in IBS

    I think it's more like: Patient expresses much emotion > hysterical Patient expresses little emotion > suppressed emotions Patient expresses mixed emotions > therapist thinks patient is too normal > hiding something under the surface Patient thinks this is all BS > proves patient is indeed...
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    The role of high expectations of self and social desirability in emotional processing in IBS

    Does anyone understand the BPS model of diabetic foot ulcers? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796712000447 Development and preliminary evaluation of a psychosocial intervention for modifying psychosocial risk factors associated with foot re-ulceration in diabetes...
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    The role of high expectations of self and social desirability in emotional processing in IBS

    MS, Stroke, ME, RA., Diabetes, Seizures., Gulf war syndrome, Muscle disease... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=chalder stroke https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chalder rheumatoid arthritis&btnG=&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chalder sclerosis&btnG=&hl=en...
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    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    well if the liver does not work you see a doctor. If the brain does not work you are to blame and should not see a doctor except a psychiatrist. Stupid really. I have the feeling that is not the problem. I think every neurologist sees patients on a daily basis that have clearly distressing...
  23. chipmunk1

    Chalder & Wessely - Functional(Psychogenic)Neurological disorders 6 Sep

    Not only this but pseudo seizures are far more common in epilepsy patients. the fact that something appears only when you are stressed does not prove it is psychological. Parkinson's symptoms or epilepsy can get worse under stress. I think i recall there was once a case of someone losing their...
  24. chipmunk1

    "It was quasi-religious":the great self esteem con ....Guardian article

    psychonanalysis was discredited by CBT promoters. Self-esteem is now being discredited by Self-acceptance promoters. One con is being replaced by another. The new generation need to built their careers on something they came up with but the market for their product has already been cornered by...
  25. chipmunk1

    Sense about science document on What is peer review

    Sense about Science seems more like a lobbying group with S. Wessely on board. Run by PR people. The reason why they are promoting peer review as reliable is because the process is broke and unreliable in reality. They want you to follow scientific publications like a religion. (Infallibility)...
  26. chipmunk1

    What happens when patients know more than their doctors?

    The patient gets diagnosed with 'health anxiety' :)
  27. chipmunk1

    BBC Radio 4: The Life Scientific with Simon Wessely, 14th Feb 2017

    as always busy marginalising groups of chronically ill people :D
  28. chipmunk1

    Esther Crawley blog (February 3): "Doing what is right in a controversial field"

    I think they believe adults are beyond hope and untreatable and the only thing they can do is to brainwash future patients as early as possible so that they don't develop ME(Somatization)