‘Examining the evidence for a psycho-physiological model of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in adolescents’, by Kate Lievesley. Thesis submitted for MPhil / PhD, University of London Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University
Anonymous comment: So because mothers of children with ME/CFS (a highly debilitating disease with next to nothing levels of awareness and social support, no known cause or treatment, and whose hallmark symptom is exertion-induced debility) experience more distress, anxiety, a significantly worse quality of life, worse general health and more self-sacrificing behaviours than mothers of children with asthma (a disease with high levels of awareness, treatment and social support) or healthy children, this somehow means that the distress causes the child’s illness rather than is a consequence of it?