Darlene, you are absolutely correct. There is a psychosocial overlay to pretty much any organic disease, but it is not necessarily causative. For the record, the World Health Organization has classifies Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as an organic brain disease (ICD-10 G93.3 pg 528 2006 alphabetical index) along with myalgic encephalomyelitis and post viral fatigue syndrome.
Since you presumably write about empowering women you might want to read the Winter 2010 issue of Ms. for a well-informed look at CFS by Dr. Nancy Klimas, a world-renowned CFS expert. She notes that multiple sclerosis was once called "hysterical paralysis," and thought to be psychogenic also.
As scientific knowledge expands, many diseases once thought to be caused by "bad air" or "blood" or even psychogenic have turned out to be organic caused by viruses, toxins, bacteria or parasites. CFS is one of those.
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Darlene, you are absolutely correct. There is a psychosocial overlay to pretty much any organic disease, but it is not necessarily causative. For the record, the World Health Organization has classifies Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) as an organic brain disease (ICD-10 G93.3 pg 528 2006 alphabetical index) along with myalgic encephalomyelitis and post viral fatigue syndrome.
Since you presumably write about empowering women you might want to read the Winter 2010 issue of Ms. for a well-informed look at CFS by Dr. Nancy Klimas, a world-renowned CFS expert. She notes that multiple sclerosis was once called "hysterical paralysis," and thought to be psychogenic also.
As scientific knowledge expands, many diseases once thought to be caused by "bad air" or "blood" or even psychogenic have turned out to be organic caused by viruses, toxins, bacteria or parasites. CFS is one of those.
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