Long Covid course is ‘exploiting people’, says ex-GB rower
Long Covid course is ‘exploiting people’, says ex-GB rower
Ex-Team GB's Oonagh Cousins says a treatment she underwent "blamed" participants for being ill.
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Lightning Process founder, Dr Phil Parker, who's not a medical doctor but has a PhD in psychology of health, told us his course was "not a mindset or positive thinking approach," but one that uses "the brain to influence physiological changes", backed by peer-reviewed evidence.
The coach on the course we attended said "thoughts about your symptoms, your worry about whether it's ever going to go - that's what keeps the neurology going."
So in other words, a charletain is selling a fake cure to a real disease.
Been going on for years before Long Covid with ME/CFS. I guess this greedy buffoon saw long covid and thought he could exploit some more patients.
Lightning Process founder, Dr Phil Parker, who's not a medical doctor but has a PhD in psychology of health, told us his course was "not a mindset or positive thinking approach," but one that uses "the brain to influence physiological changes", backed by peer-reviewed evidence.
Seems like a combo of placebo effect, and people not really even knowing if they had long COVID to begin with...
Like, if this was some bullshit going around social media, whatever.
But they're charging gullible people $1,000 pounds (kilograms? Portraits of old white people maintaining an outdated feudal system of government?) for this shit. And telling them to ignore physical treatment.
And that makes it predatory snake oil.
There's nothing wrong trying to game the placebo effect, even if you're aware it might be a placebo, our brains are optimists and really don't care. So there's no hit to effectiveness.
What's always been crazy to me is the nocebo effect.
Like, if I give you a milkshake, and after you drink half I tell you it ha ipecac in and now you have to throw up, you have a pretty good chance of feeling sick and throwing up. But if I told you about the nice o effect while you drank it, your body wouldn't fall for it.
It's always been crazy to me that awareness of the effect only changes the negative result and not the positive
Since a decent chunk of people with Long Covid recover within the first year (before it becomes chronic), they often try to find out “what” made them recover, even though studies point to the fact these recoveries are natural. So if they did the lightning scamprocess thingy, they’ll blame that for their recovery.
Same thing as when some people with ME claimed acupuncture “cured them” or that they got better by praying to god.
ME claimed acupuncture
Chronic fatigue?
Acupuncture does have legit neurological benefits tho...
A good chunk of benefits would be placebo, but we don't really understand chronic fatigue to begin with. And acupuncture does have an effect on local nerves, the nervous system, and our brain.
That was just a weird abbreviation and weird you went on a rant about acupuncture...
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/acupuncture-what-you-need-to-know
Like, it sounds like your mad people are getting relief from a condition we don't understand, from a treatment we don't understand...
We just know it works above the rates of placebo and that it has a real effect on the nervous system.
If that makes you angry, don't read up on how anesthesia works, especially before you have to be out under