Dr. Will Bostock's Insights on Overcoming ME/CFS and Long Covid

Great interview. He hit the nail on the head with hope. The single biggest thing that helped me was finding your channel and binge watching the videos. Seeing people had recovered and explaining the illness improved me like 50% in a couple of weeks. It must have calmed my warning system and feeling better proved what they were saying was true, in a virtuous cycle. Proud of you Raelan. Look at the difference you’re making.

Oh my word, Raelen! You came out of your darkness and decided to put light out into the world. And look where it's taking you! Your work on this channel could support medical research and make it into a medical journal one day, supporting not just sufferers around the world today but future generations! You go girl, you beautiful, kind soul!❤ And loved the Dr's insights. Im incorporating some of his analogies into my brain retraining!

What a beautiful, compassionate and brilliant man! His attitude is incredibly inspiring, especially toward the loss of his son and how he's learned and shared that we can always carry our loved ones with us. Bless his heart. So grateful for him and his work and for you and your work as well, Raelan. ❤

Beautiful, moving and very insightful conversation of two people who have grown through personal suffering, and found meaning through it. Such a relatable, sensitive treatment of this journey. Thank you.

What a relief to see such a knowledgeable and compassionate person in the medical field. Really appreciated the analogies Dr. Bostock used -- the hardware/software and check engine light ones in particular deepened my understanding of the symptom/signaling process. Thanks to you both for taking the time to do this interview!

Raelan you will always be my base, you are where my recovery started and I will be with you beyond my recovery. I am mostly better. I could not make heads or tails of any info or resources until your channel gave me a foundation ❤ You are my saviour, thank you!

Incredible interview! Dr. Bostock has such a great understanding of ME/CFS and other mind/body illnesses and amazing empathy as well. I would love to see your recovery videos become more prominent and mainstream. This field, especially the aspect of recovery, desperately needs to have more of a spotlight put on it. Thank you for the great work you are doing Raelan!

Wow, Raelan I was blown away by this interview! This interview was so moving. I am amazed by how articulate and compassionate Dr. Bostock is. So uplifting! Thank you Raelan- your channel and the work you do is cutting edge and so appreciated ❤

Best interview so far. Lovely to see a medic who gets it with an open mind. 💜

Dear Dr Will what a beautiful interview you have given here, thank you so much. We so need to hear all you have shared and so do your collegues. You have so been able to highlight the complexity of our body's functioning and the clarity of your understanding. I am so moved to experience your openness about your own journey. You are so coming from a place of wisdom and spirituality. It's so rare to hear some one medical trained to be able and to be willing to speak about health and life as you do. Wishing you well. And also thank you replan, wonderful achievement Dr Will felt like contacting you, honouring your work.

Oh wow, that was so inspiring and touching to listen to! I, too, appreciate Dr Bostock's sensitive and inclusive point of view and I was deeply touched by the short insight into his own journey with the death of his son. And I can't imagine how validating and faith-giving it must feel to hear his idea to have an academical research on your interviews!!! That is sooo huge and I am so happy for you, because you have put in so much work and care into these interviews and into your channel 😍. As a sidenote: Because you have mentioned Curable a couple of times recently, I downloaded the app 7 weeks ago and went from being able to hike 20 minutes max without a break to full on 2,5h without crashing afterwards thanks to Curable (and the whole journey that made me open up to that approach...like listening to dozens of your interviews :D ). I have never felt more "recoverable" and it brings me the deepest joy ever. The point the both of you made about not being the same person after the journey resonates so much for me and I can finally see how I become grateful for the symptoms since I probably wouldn't have started to learn to process my emotions, regulate my nervous system, understand my fear and transform as a person if it wasn't for them.

40:53 this fear and focus. Were massive for me. Removing them, letting time pass and me going "oh I don't have that symptom anymore" was extremely rewarding for me. As well as responding to symptoms neutrally. And the also understanding that of course if I add more activity there will be an adjustment period before my body trusts that thats safe

This is just astounding! What an interview. So validating. I have completely recovered from long COVID using mind body approaches.

"We don't know that people can't recover." That's great.

Woulden't it be amazing. If all Medical Drs watched both this video and all Raglans recovery story video's.xx So sorry to hear you lost your son😢😢 What a compassionate DR you are. Thank you for this video. One good thing came out of covid. It bought more awareness to billions sufferring from cfs/ ME. As symptoms very similar to long covid. We need our stories heard. Xx

I couldn’t keep watching after the first segment, because the conversation actually made me feel like if you only have a certain form of CFS, you might be able to recover, but that recovery isn’t possible for everyone. i couldn’t keep watching otherwise it’s gonna trigger my fight or flight to go haywire. i’m completely bedridden i hate this illness

Great interview!! I'm taking away "post-trauma growth" and everything said about "recovery", SO HELPFUL! Thank you both!!! <3

I pray for more docs like him!

I loved this one, Raelan. It's fantastic to see a clinician talk about things with this kind of nuance. He's absolutely right about the hierarchy of illness. It seems like most doctors tend to think in purely black and white terms (like, functional condition -> pathophysiology not known -> made up condition by an anxious pleb of a patient who's here to make my day a bit more annoying). It's lovely to come across the odd doctor here and there who has a broader perspective on all this stuff and places equal weight on conditions that don't fit neatly into the textbooks, as well as the human experience of it all. And what a compliment to have him (rightly!) recommend your channel to his patients. Be proud! You're really doing things!

As someone who has mostly recovered from my 3rd bout of cfs using Sarno’s TMS approach this was a fascinating interview and so validating as TMS can be hard to understand and explain! Dr Bostock comes across as such a sensitive and compassionate person and as I live in the UK I was genuinely surprised that someone from this background is talking about this approach!! Thank you so much Raelan for this interview and Dr Bostock for being so open minded in your approach, I am sorry for the loss of your son ❤ I really hope this can lead to better treatment and understanding of this condition x Raelan-I know you wouldn’t wish to have had this experience but just look at how many people you are helping and the difference you’re making! 🤩👏