AndyPR
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Leonard Jason's 2017 presentation to the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago regarding myths regarding ME and CFS.
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This excerpt is especially good I think:-He suffers from ME himself since 1990. Here's an interesting interview with David Tuller from 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-chronicfatigue-expert.html
[My italics]Q: There are many people who think C.F.S. is just a form of depression. What’s the connection between the two?
A: The fast answer is, if you want to do a quick diagnostic test, you could say, “If you were well tomorrow, what would you do?” And the person with C.F.S. would give you a list of things that they want to get back to in their life, and the person with classic depression would probably say, “I don’t know.”
Eighty percent of people who have depression have fatigue, but it’s not their most serious complaint. They might have sleep problems, and some cognitive problems that are common, and they can end up being brought into the case definition for C.F.S. Some people with this disease do have depression. If you basically have a person who says they were feeling pretty good, now they’re sick, and then they get depressed, they could have depression as well as the illness. The real critical problem is when you have a person who has solely depression and does not have this illness, but has fatigue. So if your case definition is imprecise and you blur the categories, and that brings into it people who don’t have the illness, you ultimately have problems with estimating how many people have it.