Posted by notfred on March 4, 2007, at 14:18:02
In reply to Re: Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome real?, posted by Declan on March 4, 2007, at 14:09:42
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurasthenia
The modern view holds that the main problem of neurasthenia was that it attempted to group together a wide variety of cases. In recent years, Richard M. Fogoros has posited that perhaps neurasthenia was a word that could include some psychiatric conditions, but more importantly, many physiological conditions marginally more understood by the medical community, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and various forms of dysautonomia, among others. He emphasizes that the majority of patients who would have once been diagnosed with neurasthenia have conditions that are "real, honest-to-goodness physiologic (as opposed to psychologic) disorders... and while they can make anybody crazy, they are not caused by craziness."
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