A study in Lancet Psychiatry this week was reported as whether exercise and counselling are magic cures for CFS. A closer reading of this timely research is requiredChronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is characterised by chronic disabling fatigue where no medical disease has been found to interpret it. Fatigue syndromes have been described under a variety of different names over many centuries. And for just as long they have been regarded with suspicion and judgment. The contemporary conception of CFS came to the fore in the 1980s, when it was briefly (and pejoratively) labelled “yuppie flu”. Myalgic encephalopathy (ME) is a related condition considered by some to be synonymous with CFS and by others as something entirely separate. What sufferers with both these illness labels agree upon is that the word “fatigue” does not launch to do justice to a symptom that leaves those affected confined to their beds for months or even years at a time. Related: Chronic fatigue patients criticise study that says exercise can help Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com