"CFS / ME in many cases leads to a severe physical disability. According to the WHO seriously ill patients often have an energy level of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or HIV patients in full-blown AIDS."
"ME / CFS is a serious disease and many sufferers experience it as extremely restrictive and obstructive. The unusually strong, even overwhelming fatigue and the physical, often associated with massive flu-like symptoms make it impossible for most to carry on their normal lives . People have to live every day with nerve-racking and exceptional tiredness, weakness, being thin-skinned, despair, pain and cognitive impairments. As a result, the disease carries the risk of losing the job to come into material need and then, and in addition to suffer various social and psychological problems."
"Cerebral disorders, for example, strong forgetfulness, cognitive disorders, visual impairment, emotional lability and mood swings ("fragility" in consequence of fatigue), intolerance to loud noises, light sensitivity, sleep and movement disorders."
"Immunological symptoms (infection defense disorders) such as flu symptoms, sore throat redness, body temperature changes (often slightly increased / subfebrile), fever feelings."
"CFS is not a progressive or fatal disease. However, it can occur as sequelae in all chronic diseases that can be life-threatening. It is therefore important, that newly added or increasing symptoms not just automatically be thought a part of CFS, but they be investigated by a doctor. Generally, however, one does not die from CFS. It happens, however, that those affected are driven by the disease and its psychosocial consequences and the despair and commit suicide. Therefore, a psychological treatment is urgently needed if such thoughts of suicide emerge."
