Adam
@abrokenbattery.bsky.social
Severe ME patient currently on a 10% battery, the gas goes out more than I do. I also compile ME/CFS Awareness videos.
https://linktr.ee/abrokenbattery
https://linktr.ee/abrokenbattery
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@abrokenbattery.bsky.social
· Dec 12
New Trailer for the #MECFS #GreatestMedicalScandal Explainer Video.
Includes clips from the full video that highlights the Stigma, Abuse, Bad Science and Harm.
Includes clips from the full video that highlights the Stigma, Abuse, Bad Science and Harm.
Just a note to say: if you hear anything about #MECFS or #PEM and related on radio or TV, let me know and I’ll do my best to record it. I missed the Celebrity Catchphrase clip and don’t want to miss any more.
And if you have any old clips on VHS, I’ll try and get them digitised.
And if you have any old clips on VHS, I’ll try and get them digitised.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Mark Bonnar was also recently on Celebrity Traitors, supporting Action for ME — although unfortunately he didn’t win.
Clip from January 2022, @mark_bonnar appeared on Celebrity Catchphrase supporting @actionforme. He explained that he backs the charity because #MECFS is very misunderstood, very underfunded and affects several people he knows personally.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Mark Bonnar was also recently on Celebrity Traitors, supporting Action for ME — although unfortunately he didn’t win.
Clip from January 2022, @mark_bonnar appeared on Celebrity Catchphrase supporting @actionforme. He explained that he backs the charity because #MECFS is very misunderstood, very underfunded and affects several people he knows personally.
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Clip from January 2022, @mark_bonnar appeared on Celebrity Catchphrase supporting @actionforme. He explained that he backs the charity because #MECFS is very misunderstood, very underfunded and affects several people he knows personally.
Germany pledges €500 million for research through the “National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases” (2026-2036), including #MECFS and #LongCOVID.
Addressing what they call “one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century.”
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Addressing what they call “one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century.”
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Bundesregierung will Erforschung von ME/CFS stärker fördern
Die Zahl der Long-Covid- und ME/CFS-Erkrankungen hat seit der Pandemie stark zugenommen. Bis 2036 sollen deswegen 500 Millionen Euro in die Forschung investiert werden.
www.zeit.de
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Germany pledges €500 million for research through the “National Decade Against Post-Infectious Diseases” (2026-2036), including #MECFS and #LongCOVID.
Addressing what they call “one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century.”
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Addressing what they call “one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century.”
www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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🚨 NEXT WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER
We’ve been made aware of an upcoming Westminster Hall debate, tabled by @tessamunt.bsky.social, focused on government support for people with ME.
If you have the energy - an email to your MP asking them to attend can go a long way 🙏
Template in next post👇
We’ve been made aware of an upcoming Westminster Hall debate, tabled by @tessamunt.bsky.social, focused on government support for people with ME.
If you have the energy - an email to your MP asking them to attend can go a long way 🙏
Template in next post👇
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🚨 NEXT WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER
We’ve been made aware of an upcoming Westminster Hall debate, tabled by @tessamunt.bsky.social, focused on government support for people with ME.
If you have the energy - an email to your MP asking them to attend can go a long way 🙏
Template in next post👇
We’ve been made aware of an upcoming Westminster Hall debate, tabled by @tessamunt.bsky.social, focused on government support for people with ME.
If you have the energy - an email to your MP asking them to attend can go a long way 🙏
Template in next post👇
Q&A on the Photography & Collaboration Arts Collective (PCAC) blog with photographer Jeremy Jeffs @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social, diagnosed with ME in 1987, discussing his powerful project photographing people living with the illness.
www.pcac.ngo/blog/jeremy-...
www.pcac.ngo/blog/jeremy-...
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Q&A on the Photography & Collaboration Arts Collective (PCAC) blog with photographer Jeremy Jeffs @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social, diagnosed with ME in 1987, discussing his powerful project photographing people living with the illness.
www.pcac.ngo/blog/jeremy-...
www.pcac.ngo/blog/jeremy-...
After a number of requests I’ve made all of the TV clips on my YouTube channel public. They’re now searchable on and will appear on my homepage and in the videos tab.
youtube.com/@brokenbattery
youtube.com/@brokenbattery
Broken Battery
Severe ME patient currently on a 10% battery, the gas goes out more than I do. I also compile ME/CFS Awareness videos.
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
After a number of requests I’ve made all of the TV clips on my YouTube channel public. They’re now searchable on and will appear on my homepage and in the videos tab.
youtube.com/@brokenbattery
youtube.com/@brokenbattery
This clip from 2018 perfectly captures just how passionate @davetuller1.bsky.social is and how shocked he was by the way the PACE trial was defended.
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This clip from 2018 perfectly captures just how passionate @davetuller1.bsky.social is and how shocked he was by the way the PACE trial was defended.
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
His crowd funding has just 1 day to go and he’s ~$10k from his target. I’ve just donated again so he can carry on doing his important work
‘If you’re disabled, you’re not ill.’
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
‘If you’re disabled, you’re not ill.’
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review)
This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics.
I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
Clip from @davetuller1.bsky.social’s interview with Professor @bmhughes.bsky.social about his new book, Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism. He explains how the psychogenic framing of illnesses like #MECFS and #LongCovid has shaped care and policy, often as a way to cut costs.
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Clip from @davetuller1.bsky.social’s interview with Professor @bmhughes.bsky.social about his new book, Psychology’s Quiet Conservatism. He explains how the psychogenic framing of illnesses like #MECFS and #LongCovid has shaped care and policy, often as a way to cut costs.
Dr Clare Gerada has been appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and is now a baroness — I’ve put together a short thread about her involvement in #MECFS.
twitter-thread.com/t/1981309222...
twitter-thread.com/t/1981309222...
🧵Dr Clare Gerada has been appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and is now a Baroness. She is married to psychiatrist Sir Simon Wessely, the main architect of the now-discredited psycholog...
🧵Dr Clare Gerada has been appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and is now a Baroness. She is married to psychiatrist Sir Simon Wessely, the main architect of the now-discredited psycholog...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Dr Clare Gerada has been appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and is now a baroness — I’ve put together a short thread about her involvement in #MECFS.
twitter-thread.com/t/1981309222...
twitter-thread.com/t/1981309222...
This post has had quite a bit of attention on other platforms, so I just want to highlight and thank @investinmeresearch.bsky.social They’ve been running the #IIMEC conference every year since 2006, entirely organised by volunteers. A huge effort supporting #MECFS research and pushing for change.
“Most of the people I’ve seen with #MECFS are so much sicker than my cancer patients.”
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
October 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This post has had quite a bit of attention on other platforms, so I just want to highlight and thank @investinmeresearch.bsky.social They’ve been running the #IIMEC conference every year since 2006, entirely organised by volunteers. A huge effort supporting #MECFS research and pushing for change.
“Most of the people I’ve seen with #MECFS are so much sicker than my cancer patients.”
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
October 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Most of the people I’ve seen with #MECFS are so much sicker than my cancer patients.”
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
Dr. Fridbjörn Sigurdsson, a former medical oncologist now focused on ME/CFS, speaking at the 2025 @investinmeresearch.bsky.social conference.
Thanks to @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social for finding the clip.
Clip from yesterday’s Westminster debate on PoTS, Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social raised the case of a constituent’s daughter with #MECFS who believes she also has PoTS. After finally seeing a consultant in Bristol, she was told PoTS was “a TikTok fashion” and refused any testing.
October 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Clip from yesterday’s Westminster debate on PoTS, Tessa Munt MP @tessamunt.bsky.social raised the case of a constituent’s daughter with #MECFS who believes she also has PoTS. After finally seeing a consultant in Bristol, she was told PoTS was “a TikTok fashion” and refused any testing.
Clip: BBC Radio Nottingham, Nyrobi Beckett-Messam from ALT BLK ERA says she hid her #MECFS diagnosis for the first few years, fearing stigma and discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Clip: BBC Radio Nottingham, Nyrobi Beckett-Messam from ALT BLK ERA says she hid her #MECFS diagnosis for the first few years, fearing stigma and discrimination.
BBC Radio Nottingham (17 mins) Summaya Mughal talks with ALT BLK ERA’s Nyrobi Beckett-Messam and Dr Charles Shepherd (MEA Hon. Medical Adviser) about #MECFS and new University of East Anglia research claiming a blood test can detect the condition
youtu.be/Tq6C0Q1wyFg?...
youtu.be/Tq6C0Q1wyFg?...
BBC Radio Nottingham - ME/CFS ALT BLK ERA Interview
YouTube video by Broken Battery
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BBC Radio Nottingham (17 mins) Summaya Mughal talks with ALT BLK ERA’s Nyrobi Beckett-Messam and Dr Charles Shepherd (MEA Hon. Medical Adviser) about #MECFS and new University of East Anglia research claiming a blood test can detect the condition
youtu.be/Tq6C0Q1wyFg?...
youtu.be/Tq6C0Q1wyFg?...
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1) 🇬🇧 For ME/CFS patients in the UK only: Action for ME has opened its 2025 Big Survey! Last time, it had more than 4000 respondents, but hopefully this one will be even bigger.
The deadline for submitting your response is 27 January 2026.
The deadline for submitting your response is 27 January 2026.
October 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
1) 🇬🇧 For ME/CFS patients in the UK only: Action for ME has opened its 2025 Big Survey! Last time, it had more than 4000 respondents, but hopefully this one will be even bigger.
The deadline for submitting your response is 27 January 2026.
The deadline for submitting your response is 27 January 2026.
New article from the disability news service mentions Wessely’s appointment
The government’s decision to commission a review of “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears it will allow ministers to justify further sweeping cuts to disability benefits.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-over-g...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-over-g...
Alarm over government’s choices to lead ‘over-diagnosis’ review that could help ministers cut benefits
The government’s decision to commission a review of alleged “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears that it will all…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New article from the disability news service mentions Wessely’s appointment
It’s @davetuller1.bsky.social‘s birthday today, so I’ve donated to his fundraising campaign so that he can carry on his important work calling out bad research. Happy Birthday David!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025
Help UC Berkeley raise $68,000 for the project: David Tuller's Trial by Error Fall 2025. Your gift will make a difference!
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October 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It’s @davetuller1.bsky.social‘s birthday today, so I’ve donated to his fundraising campaign so that he can carry on his important work calling out bad research. Happy Birthday David!
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768
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Thanks, George 🙏
For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic.
He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15273...
For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic.
He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15273...
Thread by @ABrokenBattery on Thread Reader App
@ABrokenBattery: 🧵Gulf War Syndrome & Simon Wessely "For 30 years they have been disowned, ignored and lied to by consecutive governments, with no positive answers to their questions about exposure to...
threadreaderapp.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Thanks, George 🙏
For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic.
He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15273...
For anyone interested, I wrote a thread about how Wessely was wrong about Gulf War Illness, Camelford Poisonings & ill health following 9/11 being psychogenic.
He also used harassment as a distraction from criticism during a talk on GWI.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/15273...
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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...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
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...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
On LBC, callers Ann and Annie told Natasha Devon that the rise in long-term sickness is linked to long Covid — and compared the lack of support to what people with #MECFS have faced for decades (10 mins)
youtu.be/BoVpKmsTNFY?...
youtu.be/BoVpKmsTNFY?...
Natasha Devon - Long-term sickness call in
YouTube video by Broken Battery
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
On LBC, callers Ann and Annie told Natasha Devon that the rise in long-term sickness is linked to long Covid — and compared the lack of support to what people with #MECFS have faced for decades (10 mins)
youtu.be/BoVpKmsTNFY?...
youtu.be/BoVpKmsTNFY?...
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1) 🇳🇴 Ola Didrik Saugstad and his colleagues report about the first specialised care unit for severely and very severely affected ME/CFS patients.
It opened in 2021 in Norway. The authors report the results from the first 3 years.
It opened in 2021 in Norway. The authors report the results from the first 3 years.
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
1) 🇳🇴 Ola Didrik Saugstad and his colleagues report about the first specialised care unit for severely and very severely affected ME/CFS patients.
It opened in 2021 in Norway. The authors report the results from the first 3 years.
It opened in 2021 in Norway. The authors report the results from the first 3 years.
BBC Radio Suffolk segment (13 mins) on #MECFS - @tinarodwell1.bsky.social speaks about caring for her son Angus, the daily challenges of the illness, and @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social powerful exhibition Lives We Cannot Live which Angus took part in.
youtu.be/bNw30eqfhvw?...
youtu.be/bNw30eqfhvw?...
BBC Radio Suffolk - Tina Rodwell
YouTube video by Broken Battery
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
BBC Radio Suffolk segment (13 mins) on #MECFS - @tinarodwell1.bsky.social speaks about caring for her son Angus, the daily challenges of the illness, and @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social powerful exhibition Lives We Cannot Live which Angus took part in.
youtu.be/bNw30eqfhvw?...
youtu.be/bNw30eqfhvw?...