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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by campbell28[/i] [br]There has been a case in the UK this week of a mother suspected of a mercy killing of her 31 year old ME sufferer daughter. I've been reading the articles about this and feeling baffled because this girl first contracted ME when she was 14, and has been completely bedridden ever since, so seriously affected she couldn't swallow, speak, eat, remember things for more than a few hours.... the other article below describes another girl first diagnosed with ME aged 7 - who also has to be fed through a tube and has desperately severe symptoms. Can this really be ME? Can these two cases be the same as ME / CFS which clearly has a psychological component? I have a friend who has been ill with post-viral fatigue / ME for a year or two and I can clearly see it is a TMS equivalent - she has the TMS personality; her illness follows random patterns and came after a period of some stress. But what she has been suffering from bears little resemblance in terms of severity to the cases described below. I know that some people do suffer very very severe TMS / TMS equivalent symptoms but these cases sound more like some kind of degenerative disease or even brain damage - especially as both girls were affected so young. What do people think? Could doctors be diagnosing ME when it's actually something else? I just find these cases so sad - especially if there was a psychological reason for the Gilderdale girl's illness, and now she is dead - could she have recovered using Sarno's method? It sounds like she was so severely ill she was in a living coma most of the time. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3690981/Mother-arrested-over-mercy-killing-faced-with-long-wait.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3692639/I-had-three-years-of-nothingness-of-hell.html [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.