> If suggesting that ME/CFS may be a mental illness breeds contempt towards sufferers, then we really need to reflect on our attitudes towards mental illness.

> If suggesting that ME/CFS may be a mental illness breeds contempt towards sufferers, then we really need to reflect on our attitudes towards mental illness. Absolutely you are correct on this, but at the same time it doesn't change the reality that to many people and doctors, ascribing it to mental illness is essentially a dismissal, which is wildly unhelpful to the person suffering.