Tag Archives: CBT
How me & my ME became worse… following an exercise programme
Rosa rainbows blog post: How me and my ME became worse, 17 September 2016 Extracts: I haven’t written a blog post for about two months, and the reason is that I have become very ill. For my friends who do … Continue reading
Dr Phil Hammond writes about the ME campaigners’ challenge to the science of CBT & GET
Private eye Medicine Balls column, 10 December 2016: ‘ME campaigners don’t ignore CBT and GET… but they do challenge the science’ Private eye Medicine Balls column, 25 November 2016: ‘ME cluster bomb’ [Written by ‘M.D.’, the nom de plume of Dr Phil … Continue reading
Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you
PLOS blog post by James Coyne PhD, 7 December 2016: Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you I was asked by a Danish journalist to examine a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of cognitive behavior … Continue reading
Tuller says FITNET fraught with misrepresentations & methodological problems
Virology blog post, by David Tuller, 21 November 2016: Trial By Error, Continued: The New FITNET Trial for Kids The article challenges: the failure of PACE researchers to acknowledge failings of PACE the unproven use of CBT to reverse false … Continue reading
Studies on CBT & GET for ME/CFS are misleading, says Swedish prof
Article abstract: There have been a number of studies on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) for ME/CFS based on a treatment model where the disease is perpetuated by cognitive processes. Although the studies are flawed and … Continue reading
Dr Keith Geraghty requests experiences of CBT & GET
Dr Keith Geraghty, researcher at the University of Manchester (@keithgeraghty) has tweeted at 6:09 p.m. on Mon, Nov 07, 2016: Ever experience adverse reactions to CBT or GET in CFS treatment – email me @ Keith.geraghty@manchester.ac.uk – we want to hear … Continue reading
PACE-gate: when clinical trial evidence meets open data access
Article abstract: Science is not always plain sailing and sometimes the voyage is across an angry sea. A recent clinical trial of treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome (the PACE trial) has whipped up a storm of controversy. Patients claim the … Continue reading
FITNET trial reporting is misleading
Major charities and individuals have joined WAMES in expressing concern about the nature of the FITNET trial being run by Prof Esther Crawley, the lack of objective analysis in the media coverage and the questionable results from the original Dutch trial. WAMES does … Continue reading
A qualitative study of depression in young people with CFS/ME
Research abstract: Background: Paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) has a prevalence of 0.4–2.4% and is defined as ‘generalised disabling fatigue persisting after routine tests and investigations have failed to identify an obvious underlying cause’. One-third of young people with … Continue reading
