114 Quotes About Chronic-fatigue-syndrome

It is a perfectly normal side-effect for someone to have depression because he cannot move or function in his job. That is all that it is: a side-effect. Those with disabilities and debilitating illnesses probably have more to get depressed about than others.

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....

Pain is a portal to transformation,It does not knock politely.

It dawns on me that maybe I'm just terrifically lazy; that I might be appropriating other people’s invisible sicknesses and disorders and scribbling them on the clipboard at the end of my bed to fool the nurses; so I can indulge in rest cures all day, every day. That I’m even fooling myself.

We've got to do better, I thought. This story of injustice had continued on far too long. It's time for the misinformation and stigmatization surrounding ME/CFS to stop. Our leaders need to step up to the plate, acknowledge past mistakes, and fix them. All the evidence is there in black and white. More research funding to find a cure would prevent so much unnecessary suffering and save lives.

hierarchies of diseases exist among patients and healthcare professionals...and when it comes to hierarchies of illness, evidence shows that chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) /myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), features at the bottommost end of the medical “favoured” list

The deepening corruption of peer view for ME/CFS in the UK continues on wholly unrestrained by evidence, logic, and basic decency.

With a strange logic, [Rod Liddle] asserts that because ME patients deny that they have a psychiatric disorder, this proves they have a psychiatric disorder.Meanwhile, people are quietly dying of ME. ME sufferer Emily Collingridge died, aged 30; Victoria Webster died at just 18. People don’t die from ‘exercise phobia’. ME is not ‘lethargy’ and ‘aches and pains’, as Liddle claims. Severe ME is lying in a darkened room, alone, in agonising pain, tube-fed, catheterised, too weak to move or speak.

Activities of daily living utilize energy and are in themselves, exercise. These activities may constitute an optimum amount of exercise for some patients or an excessive amount of exercise for others while for some patients, adding a suitable exercise program (exercise therapy) can improve function and quality of life.