I was sick for a long time. I had a resting headache and…

Some days were better than others, and I knew how to fake it to look normal. But some days I wanted to sleep all…

— Tabitha Brown

Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the…

— Tucker Halpern

When people think of chronic fatigue syndrome, they imagine someone simply sleeping a lot or who's always tired. The stigma from that name, and…

— Stephanie Land

“The label ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ was first proposed by Holmes et al. (1988) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This name was recommended…

— Megan A. Arroll

“In general, fatigue is not as severe in depression as in ME/CFS. Joint and muscle pains, recurrent sore throats, tender lymph nodes, various cardiopulmonary…

— Bruce M. Carruthers

“ME has been classified as a neurological condition at least since 1968 (this should have been 1969)…however, for all these years, sufferers from this…

— Countess of Mar

“Many people confuse “chronic fatigue” (which is a symptom of many chronic conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, or lupus) or “general tiredness” (which is…

— Valerie free

“ME/CFS has a greater negative impact on functional status and well-being than other chronic diseases, e.g., cancer or lung diseases[8], and is associated with…

— Frank Twisk

“Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling condition characterized by severe unexplained fatigue and a mixed profile of symptoms such as sore throat,…

— Leonard A. Jason

“To replace ME/CFS, the [Institute of Medicine] committee proposes the name systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID. This name captures a central characteristic of…

— Ellen Wright Clayton

“Daily chronic fatigue can be an indication that something is wrong in your environment that needs to be identified and removed.”

— Steven Magee

“The term "functional somatic syndrome" is used to describe groups of co-occurring symptoms that are medically unexplained. Polysymptomatic functional somatic syndromes frequently encountered by…

— Robert L. Woolfolk

“The renaming of ME to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in 1988, giving misplaced emphasis to “fatigue”, trivializes the substantial disability of the disease 1…

— Malcolm hopper

“The Wessely School rejects the significant body of biomedical evidence demonstrating that chronic “fatigue” or “tiredness” is not the same as the physiological exhaustion…

— Malcolm hopper

“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much con- fusion…

— Bruce M. Carruthers