(Traduction google)I know that ME is variable in terms of expressions and reasons that could cause it. There are still basic symptoms to diagnose it. Also after 30 years of personal illness and readings on the subject, I know that ME can come from different factors.
Science has only been around for a very short time. Of course we would like to have a very clear answer from science. But there are so many angles from which we can analyze this disease that we will have to wait again to find real answers, scientifically proven.
The issue of stress comes up regularly to be an explanatory factor for ME. I believe that to try to understand this disease, one must remain open to this possibility and not put one's head in the sand.
Personally, I had a very stressful life before I got sick 30 years ago. As a couple, with children, work, home, activities, etc. I often got the flu. Unfortunately it all fell apart one day and then I got sick. At the start of the illness, I continued to fight. I felt in a fog with great difficulty in functioning, but I continued. I was going to see my doctor to tell him about it but told me that it was a bad time to pass. And so I continued to force myself. But I was crying a lot and my condition was deteriorating. And 5-6 years after this difficulty of functioning is there, I fell but really at the lowest. And there it was the years of bedridden life .... crash .... inability to exercise to get up ... very very great difficulty in functioning in my daily routine. So, I had to mourn my whole life around me and I had my 2 children in this decor. How they suffered without being able to express it.
Yes, honestly, I think the stress of too many things I was doing surely played into the illness. Too much has surely weakened my body. And I was not aware of taking care of myself. My goal was rather to reach the levels required by society: productivity, training, equipment that comes with .... I was aiming for that. And I realized that I had missed the essential which is to learn to love, to share, to live with others around me. I was rather selfish and focused on my little business. After 30 years of illness, the hindsight allows me to see that there is that in my illness but up to what percentage it contributes to it, I don't know. Maybe one day science can tell us a little more.
Since 30 years, I went from very severe to moderate EM with always improving. But I still have to be careful.