Any research about ME/CFS being CAUSED by emotional trauma?

[Rufous McKinney]

but colloquially, stress is referred to as an emotional or mental factor that causes some form of tension.

Rumor has it the word stress- did not even exist in the precursor dictionary. Maybe other more specific terms did

But when you imagine the type of stress that must have existed, squating in the mud, living in huts, its 645 AD and over then hill come the scary ones with swords and nobody is left standing.

Maybe we were almost different species of humans, back then.

Yet after all that we are still standing. Enough are, to feel a bit crowded.

 

[Treeman]

Hm, that article doesn't even mention "stress". It talks about viruses being the root cause for various neuropsychiatric symptoms, so it's the other way around according to Dr. Henderson, the underlying viral infections are the cause in his opinion.

Dr. Henderson is a child psychiatrist dealing with depression, I think most people will say he deals with stress in his job and the article opens the discussion that stress is caused by other items apart from psychological problems. However, my example wasn't a good one to support this discussion.

As a better example, the NHS in the UK put forward the following.

Causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) (including)

• a hormone imbalance
• mental health problems, such as stress and emotional trauma

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/

 

[andyguitar]

As a better example, the NHS in the UK put forward the following.

The NHS advice was scheduled to be updated a couple of months ago but has been delayed due to covid. It will be interesting to see if it changes as it was written 3 years ago and scince then there has been lots more research and CBT/GET is now out of favour.

 

[Treeman]

The NHS advice was scheduled to be updated a couple of months ago but has been delayed due to covid. It will be interesting to see if it changes as it was written 3 years ago and scince then there has been lots more research and CBT/GET is now out of favour.

I'm not holding my breath. I heard there was a psychologist on the panel. I think there will be some minor changes, but I'm not expecting CBT/GET to disappear. I saw an infectious disease specialist with the NHS last year and I was told to go home and exercise to get better. At some point I'm expecting the NHS to take me down to the village pond and duck me to see if I'm a witch......................