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https://www.nihr.ac.uk/blogs/worries-that-keep-you-awake-at-night/8466
Just..........yuck!!!
I think she made that up.
Tissue alert????
I recall Esther saying at a lecture that she finds when she Skype's children she can't see them as they hide from her.
Just..........yuck!!!
Professor Esther Crawley, Professor of Child Health, University of Bristol
10 May 2018
What do you worry about at night? Some people worry about their careers, others worry about the end of the world. I worry about children who suffer because effective treatment is not available to them. I probably ought to worry about the starving millions or those that die because they cannot get vaccinated. But in the UK, there are children who suffer because they cannot get help for their CFS/ME, and this is something we really ought to be able to sort out.
With specialist treatment, about two thirds will get much or completely better within 6 months, returning to full time school with minimal, if any, symptoms
Without treatment, less than 10% will get better.
I think she made that up.
I see these children years later, as they travel to my clinic in Bath, desperate for hope and help.
We are testing whether this works with the FITNET-NHS trial which compares two different treatment approaches: online CBT and Activity Management delivered by Skype. We always use integrated qualitative methods in our trials but (tissue alert), some of what we hear is just so sad:
Tissue alert????
Delivering treatment online seems such an obvious way forward for teenagers it is slightly surprising it hasn’t been done before. My teenagers are often attached to the Wifi by an invisible umbilical cord so I would assume all teenagers would love online treatment. But not all do
I recall Esther saying at a lecture that she finds when she Skype's children she can't see them as they hide from her.
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