Sing
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I think probably that the drugs one responds well to are indicators of what type of illness or illness pattern is going on. Fibromyalgia sufferers often experience a benefit from SSRIs, I have read, whereas those with the ME dept of the general diagnosis of CFS typically do not. Along the same lines, those with Major Depression experience a benefit from CBT and GET, whereas those who are again in the ME dept of the overly general diagnosis of CFS experience no benefit or worsening of symptoms from GET, and only minor benefit from CBT. People who get better with long term antibiotics might have Chronic Lyme, another diagnosis which can be confused with CFS, whereas people who don't might be in the ME dept. again. There are more examples. People with toxic poisoning have a lot of overlapping symptoms with ME, but the treatments they respond to are not all the same as ours. So all I am saying is that the drugs or treatments one responds well to or negatively to are indicators of the correct diagnosis, more specific than the overly general grab bag of CFS.