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Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

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Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

08.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 1516    🔁 639    💬 58    📌 62

Ahh, but you are *expecting* it though, right? Snow is really rare here: even if the rest of the UK gets it, my area usually only gets a thin sprinkling of frost. My jaw literally dropped when I looked out the window yesterday and saw actual flakes coming down ❄️😯

22.11.2024 14:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wait, wait, wait, what do you mean, we've got SNOW???? HERE???? In NOVEMBER???? ...I need to go lie down, I think I might be in shock 😱🌨️❄️☃️

21.11.2024 14:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

*sighs gratefully* It's like a breath of fresh air over here (she says, despite barely having set foot outside in the last two years) 🌬️

20.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0