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Continued Chaos in Search for the Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Online magazine Slate has an interesting article about the search for answers about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2011/12/judy_mikovits_in_prison_what_does_it_mean_for_research_on_chronic_fatigue_syndrome_.html

Author Julie Rehmeyer, who acknowledges in the article that she suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome herself, describes the apparent legal troubles of prominent CFS researcher Judy Mikovits at the Whittemore-Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, a private CFS research institute. The article further describes the failure of government funded research to discover the cause of CFS over the years.  Author Author Julie Rehmeyer asserts that this failure is because the government research has primarily pursued theories that CFS is at its core a mental or psychological disorder.  

As you can see by the comments to the article, the issue of what role psychological factors may play in CFS is a raw nerve for many CFS sufferers, perhaps even author Author Rehmeyer.

As a social security disability in North Texas who has handled hundreds of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome cases over the last 20 years, my role is to develop all avenues of success in winning social security disability benefits for my clients who suffer from CFS.  The extent to which psychological factors may have in my clients inability to work is not a paramount importance in doing my job:  only that we develop both the physical and mental impairments to bring about a positive result.