Sorry Professor Wessely, but even CBT is useless here ...

The WOW Formula in CBT ...

NICE ME Guidelines: CBT is optional ...

CBT: Crash Bang Therapy ...

DO NOT expect this much firework from the NICE JUIDICIAL REVIEW.

Just have a look at the Alzheimer Judicial Review and you will get my point. Too much money power and egomaniacs involved and careers at stake.

And no one cares about patients who are crippled or bedbound as they do not see us anyway.......

And the RSS Feed for my Blog lights up on Internet Explorer on the top right.

I DO NOT know how to put it elsewhere on my BLOG.

Anybody who can help ????

New ME site ...

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Panel finds widespread Gulf War illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, OOPS professor Wessely ...

By: ANNE USHER/Cox News Service
16 November 2008

WASHINGTON - At least one in four U.S. veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffers from a multi-symptom illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals during the conflict, a congressionally mandated report being released Monday found.

For much of the past 17 years, government officials have maintained that these veterans -- more than 175,000 out of about 697,000 deployed -- are merely suffering the effects of wartime stress, even as more have come forward recently with severe ailments.

“The extensive body of scientific research now available consistently indicates that ’Gulf War illness’ is real, that it is the result of neurotoxic exposures during Gulf War deployment, and that few veterans have recovered or substantially improved with time,” said the report, being released Monday by a panel of scientists and veterans. A copy was obtained by Cox Newspapers.

Gulf War illness is typically characterized by a combination of memory and concentration problems, persistent headaches, unexplained fatigue and widespread pain. It may also include chronic digestive problems, respiratory symptoms and skin rashes.

Two things the military provided to troops in large quantities to protect them -- pesticides and pyridostigmine bromide (PB), aimed at thwarting the effects of nerve gas -- are the most likely culprits, the panel found.

The Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses, created by Congress in 2002, presented its 450-page report to Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Peake on Monday. It said its report is the first to review the hundreds of U.S. and international studies on Gulf War vets since that have been conducted the mid-1990s.

In a 2004 draft report to Congress, the panel said that many Gulf veterans were suffering from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals.

CBT: Carry Beer on a Tray ....

Professor Wessely: does this show the real power of CBT well enough ???

The Mona Lisa in need of some CBT or is it after CBT ???

ME Research UK Christmas cards ...

ME Research UK Christmas cards for 2008 are now available. This year’s collection consists of ten attractive designs, all at very reasonable prices, and all profits will go towards vital ME research.

CBT is just marvelous ...

ENLARGE

Great parking spot ...

ENLARGE

Calling a spade a spade ...

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Professor White, can you help out with some CBT please ... for the Mockingbird that is !!!

CBT for the LAPD and this is what you end up with ....