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Article: Is chronic fatigue syndrome a symptom of the times?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 23, 1991
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A contention by two Toronto psychiatrists that chronic fatigue
syndrome is widely overdiagnosed is stirring up a hornet's nest among
many of the people who think they have it.
In a respected medical journal, Drs. Susan Abbey and Paul
Garfinkel argue that the majority of people with a self- or
physician-conferred diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome are
actually suffering from a known psychiatric disorder, severe stress
or an identifiable medical illness. While a small subgroup of these
people may actually have a distinct and still mysterious infectious
disease, they contend that most people who say they have chronic
fatigue syndrome have adopted the diagnosis because it is a lot more ...
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