ChrisD
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Did anyone just catch the BBC programme about a girl in the UK who had ME and depression, and decided to combat her depression by helping others in unfortunate situations and suffering by writing letters to them to cheer them up?
In the programme she describes how she was bitten by a tick on the Isle of wight and developed encephalitis which apparently developed into ME, it sounds a bit like Lyme to me?!
In the programme we see her travel around her town, to South Africa and set up an exhibition. She says that when her ME is bad she just works harder - I am slightly sceptical about whether she really has ME as she doesn't talk about PEM and dwells on the overlap between mental health which I am worried might yet again twist public opinion on this illness, particularly off the back of the recent ME/CFS Doctor in the house episode.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05...stostrangers&intc_linkname=bbcone_fac_vidclip
In the programme she describes how she was bitten by a tick on the Isle of wight and developed encephalitis which apparently developed into ME, it sounds a bit like Lyme to me?!
In the programme we see her travel around her town, to South Africa and set up an exhibition. She says that when her ME is bad she just works harder - I am slightly sceptical about whether she really has ME as she doesn't talk about PEM and dwells on the overlap between mental health which I am worried might yet again twist public opinion on this illness, particularly off the back of the recent ME/CFS Doctor in the house episode.
Anyone else have thoughts on this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05...stostrangers&intc_linkname=bbcone_fac_vidclip