Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Val's Take:  It is more and more obvious that many Neuro-Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders are BLURRED and not distinct.

It is becoming more and more obvious that physical health issues are BLURRING with Neuro-Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders.

Three of the most obvious are Thyroid Disorders, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid.

Probably patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than any other have fought a "PSYCHIATRIC LABEL"  ---

• "I've got a REAL ILLNESS --- not a Mental Illness"

Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome do have REAL PHYSICAL FATIGUE and they often do have cognitive or psychiatric symptoms.

People with "MENTAL ILLNESS" often do have REAL PHYSICAL FATIGUE (not always to the extent of CFS -- but enough to greatly affect their quality of life).

AND that FATIGUE is complicated.  

​Childhood neurodivergent traits, inflammation and chronic disabling fatigue in adolescence: a longitudinal case-control study (2025)

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​The impact of autoimmune thyroid disease on cognitive and psychiatric disorders: focus on clinical, pre-clinical and molecular studies (2025)

Unravelling the Connection Between Energy Metabolism and Immune Senescence/Exhaustion in Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2025)

​Dr. Sanil Rege
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)

​"Correction: 14:19 Graded Exercise Therapy NOT Graded Exposure Therapy. Graded exercise therapy is a term used in varying ways by different services supporting people with ME/CFS. (NICE).

"In this guideline, graded exercise therapy is defined as first establishing an individual's baseline of achievable exercise or physical activity, then making fixed incremental increases in the time spent being physically active.

"This definition of graded exercise therapy reflects the descriptions given in the evidence that was reviewed, and it is this approach that the guideline says should not be undertaken.

"Correction: 14:25 Graded Exercise Therapy NOT Graded Exposure Therapy"

Medical Secrets
Dr. Anthony Kaveh
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

​Association of preexisting psychiatric disorders with post-COVID-19 prevalence: a cross-sectional study (2023)