

In this Picture I had just come back from A youth camp for 2 weeks. I was still ill and tired after the camp I couldn't manage to do all the activities and didn't sleep well. I went back to school for a week I think then had to stay at home to recover. It gave me a huge boost of confidence. M.E is more common than Parkinston's disease and its severity can be worse than MS.
'M.E is a poorly taught condition, its a sort of unoffical orphan conditon. It is still not taught as an undergraduate subject. It is not taught properly as a post- graduate subject. I just saw a poll recently that people in general medicine, registars training to be psyhicans believe that 80% is it a psychosomatic disease.' Dr Nigel Speight
To counteract that argument M.E is not a mental illness which used to be what people believed. This would be the reason why there was so much stigma and disbelief that the illness was real and not made up. It is an invisable illness.
Doctors generally misdiagnose the disease and when I was ill they tested me for every possible ailment, couldnt find the cause so said it must be chronic Fatigue which there is no known cure. For how ever long your body wants to stay ill, recovery of the physical effects takes the longest.