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I had a severe bout of flu. If you haven't seen my post about it it's a few posts above!
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I don't think it has to be necessarily stressful, just that the hormones involved in the brains response to dealing with flight or fight are somehow linked to onset (along with a great many other things) This isn't something that you necessarily are aware of since most of this is going on in the background without us knowing it. It's the frequency and duration that we tap into that adrenal response that's been postulated not the severity of the event. More like a slowly dripping tap as you get through life (most of the time enjoying it). Of course you still come back to why are some people fine and others not? which is the big question.Just some food for thought - look at death rates throughout history. Not just tens of thousands of years ago, but basically up until penicilin and modern medicine. Everyone you love constantly dying around you seems pretty stressful to me. (I always think back to an old woman in my grandmother's village who lost 8 children and her husband to Spanish flu)
Maybe I'm biased because I had wonderful childhood and I accidentally happened to be in the least stressful period of my life when I came down with ME/CFS.
I don't think it has to be necessarily stressful, just that the hormones involved in the brains response to dealing with flight or fight are somehow linked to onset (along with a great many other things) This isn't something that you necessarily are aware of since most of this is going on in the background without us knowing it. It's the frequency and duration that we tap into that adrenal response that's been postulated not the severity of the event. More like a slowly dripping tap as you get through life (most of the time enjoying it). Of course you still come back to why are some people fine and others not? which is the big question.
Hmm not sure how that argument works, since it's fairly obvious that we are different to the main population. Otherwise everyone would have CFS? Perhaps you could postulate an alternative hypothesis as to why lots of people report sustained stress before their onset?This would only be meaningful if people with ME/CFS are statistically more subject to the flight of fight response than general population. Otherwise, this would be like saying having intestines is linked with Celiac disease. Flight or fight response is as natural part of human body as intestines are.
Also, it pays to keep in mind that stress and flight or fight response have historically very very often been linked with illnesses that science hasn't yet found the cause of. Once the real cause is found stress is forgotten.
Hmm not sure how that argument works, since it's fairly obvious that we are different to the main population.
Perhaps you could postulate an alternative hypothesis as to why lots of people report sustained stress before their onset?