News item alert link
Click http://tinyurl.com/m5wvoh
which has been created from the original url
<http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline>
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25929301-23289,00.html
Title: Chronic fatigue syndrome can be beaten (The Australian, 15 August
2009)
Contains: Amy Clissold knows all too well that chronic fatigue syndrome has
a shady reputation. The 24-year-old knows it's linked to everything from
Gulf War syndrome and attention deficit disorder to depression and childhood
trauma. Having had the debilitating condition since she was 14, Clissold
also knows first-hand the stigma and misunderstanding surrounding chronic
fatigue: ``If I meet someone new and tell them I have (CFS), the reaction is
normally: `That doesn't exist', or `I must have it too because I'm tired all
the time'.'' .... Describing CFS, Lionel Lubitz says: ``This is not
depression, not a psychiatric illness.'' Still, his unit at the Austin has
funding to treat just 26 of the 2555 adolescents in Melbourne who develop
CFS each year ... Contentious 2002 guidelines handed down to general
practitioners by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians also are
hampering effective treatment. Critics argue they're of little use to GPs or
sufferers ... While the debate about the effectiveness of GET-based programs
is unlikely to be resolved soon, one fact is clear. Sufferers such as
Clissold feel misunderstood, abandoned and fear their symptoms will never
end.
Any letters in response should be sent to e-mail address
<eveningnewsletters@archant.co.uk>letters@theaustralian.com.au
letters at theaustralian dot com dot au
Note: To click the links to any letters in response and, from there, any
subsequent responses, as well as to the original article, it is necessary to
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<http://www.mefreeforall.org/April-2009.1345.0.html#c6729>
I know others are intending to reply to this from several countrie in the
World. I hope they do so that we can increase public knowledge and
awareness.
Or just laugh your head off with our joke of the day
here http://www.mefreeforall.org/Jokes.1569.0.html
Cheers
John
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