Reframing beliefs about illness, along with specialist rehabilitation, can help recovery in people with severe ME/CFS, write Alastair Miller, Fiona Symington, Paul Garner, and Maria Pedersen Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) affects around 250 000 people in the UK. Symptoms include fatigue, cognitive difficulties, pain, autonomic disturbances, disturbed sleep, and gastrointestinal upset. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) estimates that 25...| The BMJ
Patients' fatigue, physical functioning and social adjustment all significantly improved following cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome in a naturalistic outpatient setting. These findings support the growing evidence from previous randomised control trials and suggest that cog …| PubMed
By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, The BMJ published a commissioned propaganda piece—er, “opinion”—written by confirmed members of the cognitive behavior ther ...| Virology Blog