Wow. This study is FASCINATING. Thanks for posting, Jenny.
I feel very lucky now, because when I was in hospital, the doctors apparently sent a physio to see me, and this was recorded in my notes, but I never saw one.
Then at a recent appointment with my neurologist, she recommended I see a physio too. However, my instinct told me this would not be a good idea. Now I know why.
Gerwyn, Garcia, Maarten, (and any other trained scientists / statisticians) are you able to have a look at this study and give it some deep criticism? I'd love to know how reliable it is if and when I need to take it to my
Rachel xx
There is more good than bad
The good bits are;
There is an inverse relationship between personality problems and severity of symptoms ---the less neurotic you are the better your symptoms----Now if wesselly's theory re chilhood abuse was correct the data would show the more neurotic you are the worse the symptoms -----this blows wesselly,s theory out of the water!
The strenght of the relationship ith ME patients who had a mother with ME is staggering this is entirely consistent with the theory of mitochondrial dysfunction as you get all your Mitos from mum.
Psychiatrists hardly ever see severe ME patients
persistence of ME proportional to the severity of the initial infection
neuroticism and perfectionism not related to severity or duration of illness
Depression is the consequence of medical treatment and not the illness
The Bad
Personality test not validated
Retrospective- memory is a construction how accurate is the recall
Doubt about diagnosis of mild cases
using stats on subjective parameters which may not be distributed in a population in a normal fashion this means the distribution pattern bell shaped - categorisation might not generally apply to a population in general no CI,s etc
overall very interesting and worthwhile
Rachel xx[/QUOTE]