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The symptoms, abnormalities, triggers and cures match perfectly with what you would expect from exhaustion due to chronic stress. If you didn't know it was cau
by j374 10y ago
The symptoms, abnormalities, triggers and cures match perfectly with what you would expect from exhaustion due to chronic stress.
If you didn't know it was caused by a virus, you could say the same thing about having the flu, most autoimmune diseases, etc. ME/CFS causes many consistent and characteristic symptoms that aren't fatigue, and most other chronic diseases cause fatigue. Why should ME/CFS be psychosomatic any more than any other illness for which we don't know the cause?
- cpncrunch 10y ago>Why should ME/CFS be psychosomatic any more than any other illness for which we don't know the cause? Because, as I mentioned in my parent comment, the "symptoms, abnormalities, triggers and cures" match stress, but the flu does not. (Flu and other infections typically have the opposite, i.e. increased HPA axis rather than reduced, for example).