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ME/CFS since 1995; activity level 6?
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Psychological stress does that to me and causes PEM.
I think valentijn's examples are mostly mental stress, rather than psychological. Mental stress seems different, but overlapping.
In fact, if you take the example of reading, it overlaps with physical too. As we would be straining our eye muscles, and mentally having to process all those words, and psychologically it could be stressful reading about the character's hard times.
Good explanation!
It's sort of a junk diagnosis. Like someone complains of stomach pain and they can't find anything, so he has "gastritis" or inflamed lining of stomach. At least doctors may believe he has stomach pain, but it's junk because it's the label after they were stumped.
Like "It's (probably) a virus." That too is a common one for doctors to spout when they don't know what's wrong.