“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“ME has been classified as a neurological condition at least since 1968 (this should have been 1969)…however, for all these years, sufferers… — Countess of Mar Copy Share Image
“The whole idea that you can take a disease like this and exercise your way to health is foolishness. It is insane.” — Paul Cheney Copy Share Image
“In general, fatigue is not as severe in depression as in ME/CFS. Joint and muscle pains, recurrent sore throats, tender lymph nodes,… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“ME/CFS is not synonymous with depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The belief by some that they are the same has caused much… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“The most important limitation of [clinical] guidelines is that the recommendations may be wrong... Practices that are sub-optimal from the patient’s perspective… — Steven H. Woolf Copy Share Image
“Patients who develop ME/CFS often lose the natural antidepressant effect of exercise, feeling worse after exercise rather than better. Patients may have… — Bruce M. Carruthers Copy Share Image
“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give… — Frederick R.P. Curzon Copy Share Image