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Article: With CFIDS, behavioral therapy often adds insult to injury.(chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome)
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- The Network News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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It was a decade after Pat Fero exhibited initial symptoms of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) before the government launched its first major study of the illness. Another decade passed before the media took much of an interest. Unfortunately, according to Fero, the attention that has followed addresses this most complex of illnesses in the most simplistic of terms, too often concluding that CFIDS can be cured through exercise and positive thinking. That attitude prevails today even among many clinicians and scientists, further diminishing the chances of both the disease getting adequate research funding and the people who have it--most of them ...