Copyright Claire Williams 2004. All Rights Reserved.
You may have noticed that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /M.E. /Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome is a very misunderstood illness...
...and this is perhaps why there are so many myths about it.
Perhaps the most common myth about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is that it is effectively a mental condition and another name for depression.
But these two conditions are very different!
And when you label a condition incorrectly it can cause no end of problems when trying to diagnose and treat it. So it's extremely important to make the distinction between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome /M.E. /Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome and depression - because they are completely different illnesses.
Depression can be a **symptom** of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome but there are many Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferers out there who do **not** suffer from depression at all.
I for example used to suffer from depression when I was first diagnosed with Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/M.E.) but now I (thankfully) don't have depression anymore.
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