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Hello everyone,
I know it's quite a condemned notion here but still time after time I am coming back to the idea that CFS is a variation of atypical depression.
What makes me think so? Well, here are some reasons. But first of all, I would like to note that I am quite a typical case of CFS - PEM, digestion issues, fibromyalgia, insomnia, anxiety, also in the past - severe neck pain and spasms, sore throat etc.
Nevertheless, here are my reasons.
1. I felt astonishingly better being on Sertraline or Mirtazapine for as long as I used them. Unfortunately, both led to severe urinal retention so I had to stop
Also, Phenibut (for a week) and Baclofen (for months) helped too. Benzo too, but I did not use it much to avoid a dependancy.
2. Many time when I travelled, I felt bad as usually for the first maybe couple of hours or so and then suddenly energy came and my body did not feel like it was 100 years old.
3. As it is for many, various BADs, diet changes or medicine temporarily worked for me - couple of days, week or so. Makes me thinking about psychosomatic even more.
4. My thoughts about anything unpleasant very often translate into the severe body (legs, arms, lower back) pain.
5. Reflecting on my past, I remember first signs of PEM when I was 18 years old. It was short but quite intense and almost always connected with some unpleasant experience - I had to smth. I didn't want or even hated to.
5. Children (till a certain age or circumstances) do not have it.
Yet, I can definitely say that I am not depressed (well, 95% or so of the time) - I know what depression looks and feels like.
I am not saying that CFS is a pure psychosomatic. On the contrary, I assume that CFS is caused by the genetic predisposition - mostly, by the over excitable nervous system.
And at some point in time, our nervous system just gets to that level of excitation where it cannot downregulate itself any more as it is caught in a vicious circle - the CFS symptoms are so bad it does not let our body recover (add here a bunch of the real life problems every grown up experience).
I. could write more but I better stop here to see what other have to say about it
Any feedback is welcomed.
Vladimir
I know it's quite a condemned notion here but still time after time I am coming back to the idea that CFS is a variation of atypical depression.
What makes me think so? Well, here are some reasons. But first of all, I would like to note that I am quite a typical case of CFS - PEM, digestion issues, fibromyalgia, insomnia, anxiety, also in the past - severe neck pain and spasms, sore throat etc.
Nevertheless, here are my reasons.
1. I felt astonishingly better being on Sertraline or Mirtazapine for as long as I used them. Unfortunately, both led to severe urinal retention so I had to stop
Also, Phenibut (for a week) and Baclofen (for months) helped too. Benzo too, but I did not use it much to avoid a dependancy.
2. Many time when I travelled, I felt bad as usually for the first maybe couple of hours or so and then suddenly energy came and my body did not feel like it was 100 years old.
3. As it is for many, various BADs, diet changes or medicine temporarily worked for me - couple of days, week or so. Makes me thinking about psychosomatic even more.
4. My thoughts about anything unpleasant very often translate into the severe body (legs, arms, lower back) pain.
5. Reflecting on my past, I remember first signs of PEM when I was 18 years old. It was short but quite intense and almost always connected with some unpleasant experience - I had to smth. I didn't want or even hated to.
5. Children (till a certain age or circumstances) do not have it.
Yet, I can definitely say that I am not depressed (well, 95% or so of the time) - I know what depression looks and feels like.
I am not saying that CFS is a pure psychosomatic. On the contrary, I assume that CFS is caused by the genetic predisposition - mostly, by the over excitable nervous system.
And at some point in time, our nervous system just gets to that level of excitation where it cannot downregulate itself any more as it is caught in a vicious circle - the CFS symptoms are so bad it does not let our body recover (add here a bunch of the real life problems every grown up experience).
I. could write more but I better stop here to see what other have to say about it
Any feedback is welcomed.
Vladimir