organic vs. functional
Levi,
I envy your brain. I can't seem to hold two competing or complementary thoughts in my head all at the same time. I won't be disagreeing with what you posted, but I do cringe a bit at the psychoanalytic terms of "somatization," "conversion disorder" and "repressed psychic distress," along with the phrase "symptoms eerily similar to CFS."
A well trained clinician will have lots of tools to identify organic vs functional illness.
This is the problem is it not? "Well trained clinicians" have identified CFS not as organic but as functional. Just look at a book titled
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes: Neurobiology and Illness Behavior in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness, Irritable Bowel, and Premenstrual Dysphoria by Peter Manu. This book is full of peer reviewed studies "proving" that CFS is functional. It sort of made me "typically" depressed.
Anyway, that's all I'm gonna say for now.