Chronic-fatigue-syndrome Quote by Barry E. Hurwitz

“It’s absolutely retrogressive to suggest [ME] CFS is in the heads of patients. I have seen patients commit suicide, or have been otherwise destroyed,…

— Peter Behan

“Many doctors (and medical students) display uncertainty about whether or not CFS/ME is real…Patients with CFS/ME often experience suspicion by health professionals…The (often unintentional)…

— Charotte Blease

“I have no problem with not understanding the exact mechanism of the symptoms of CFS…I do have a problem with the lack of respect…

— David S. Bell

People who ignore, dismiss, repress or just ventilate their emotions, are setting themselves up for physical illness.

— Senoraroy

“Self-diagnosis is a modern day healthcare crisis.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it.…

— Sally Brampton

“There’s such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they…

— Lori Wilde

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

— Cary Cooper

“When people with ME/CFS report symptoms of post-exertional malaise, those symptoms are independent of emotional distress, but when the general population report what they…

— Leonard A. Jason

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

“Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going…

— Abraham Verghese