Symptoms And Treatment Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Because symptoms are wide - ranged and studies for treatment of FMS did not begin until the 1980's, it is one of the most popularly misdiagnosed conditions in the medical world. The main symptoms are widespread pain and fatigue as well

Humans who are being over diagnosed with disorders, causes the spending of too much money on drugs and medication that could be harmful and is not needed for them to take. The objective of this book is to let people become aware of what is going on around the world. The audience that this book aims towards is the public. The main objective of Dr. Frances is to alert the public, health care professionals and clinicians about the misinformed diagnosis of people and the misdirected treatment and medications that are prescribed to people who are “normal.” Everyday pains and suffering are being diagnosed as mental illnesses and disorders. Psychiatry has specified people with false labels. The first of many arguments is that people are very worried that when a new disorder is brought up, that they have this disorder or illness. Another argument in this book is the misdiagnosis between mental disorder and normality. Many people who experience completely normal grief could be mislabeled as having a psychiatric problem. The next argument is to separate the people who have diseases from normality. Allen Frances blames the internet and social networking for the over diagnosis of mental disorder. This book is also about the high percentage of people who are now diagnosed with a mental illness,

CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis- ME and as Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome -CFIDS) as the name express, chronic means long term and fatigue means tiredness, is characterized by extreme tiredness that will not pass off by taking rest.

In the sociology of medicine Parson (1951) regarded medicine as functional in social terms. By tackling the person’s problems in medical terms the tendency towards deviance that was represented by ill health could be safely directed, until they could return to their normal self. (Lawrence 1994: p 64-65: BMJ 2004: Parson cited in Gabe, Bury & Elston 2006, p 127).

suffering from some type of illnesses. I will explore these two researchers’ theories and discuss

History shows that our understanding of health and illness is variable. The way that a society views and interprets an illness deviates from the raw, natural interpretation made by biologists and physicians. It is believed that illness, a social phenomenon, is created out of disease, a biological phenomenon, through social construction. Social construction of illness emphasizes that the meaning of illness develops through interaction in a social context. While the medical model assumes that illness is invariant in time and place, social construction suggests that cultural and social systems shape the meaning and experience of illness. In short, illness has more than just a simple presence in nature. Illness is multifaceted, with a social aspect that exists independent of its medical nature.

This report will be investigating the various sociological perspectives on health as well as the models and definitions of health and ill health. These topics will assist in the understanding of how different people and different cultures react to ill health.

. One controversial condition is chronic fatigue syndrome, called the “yuppie flu,” chronic fatigue syndrome generally affects middle‐class women, though men have also been diagnosed with it. Flu‐like symptoms, including low‐grade fever, sore throat, extreme fatigue, and emotional malaise, characterize the condition, which is often accompanied by depression. These symptoms may last for years and often result in disability. Sufferers experience difficulty in getting their condition recognized, not only by family and friends,

Although all five of the articles that were reviewed are focused on how fatigue is experienced and perceived by women living with FM, each of them had their own approach. Soderberg, Lundman and Norberg (2002) states in the third article that experiencing fatigue often disrupts ones involvement in the world, Sallinen, Kukkurainen, Peltokallio and Mikkelsson (2010) also stated in their study that the women had reported the presence of negative effects on their relationship with their husbands. The fourth study also had a similar view of the phenomenon known as fatigue; Parrish, Zautra and Davis (2008) described fatigue as a feeling that has a negative impact on the daily functioning of the women.

Furthermore, in this book, Frank argues that the modernist perception of disease is a structure of "colonization," which also means that the sick individual surrender his or her body, and the narrative of his or her life to biomedical skill. In a post-modern conception, the sick individuals will find the defense and strength to tell their own story, regain the expert and energy to recount his or her own story. It takes one to create a new lifestyle narrative from the

Also know as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS), chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), Tapanui Flu or most recently renamed as Systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID). In reality, these names mean nothing, the medical world still does not know the cause of ME, or the treatment needed.

The concepts discussed within the article regarding sick role, illness behavior and stigma served to be new knowledge for me as the article addressed these ideas from a sociological perspective. Furthermore, the article elaborated on the idea of what “sick role” is about such as how patients are obliged to follow medical treatment and guidance in exchange for a classification title of being “sick” gaining freedom from their everyday societal responsibilities (Gabe et al. 64). Moreover, the article addresses a contradictory viewpoint regarding the model of “sick role” emphasized by Bloor and Horobin who call the model of the sick role an “ideal form” that seems to amplify the experience based reality (Gabe et al. 64). In addition, Bloor and

In this article, Emotional Suppression in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Experimental Study, the researchers have many different hypothesis including “1. CFS participants will have greater sympathetic nervous system activity while observing the distressing film clip than HC. 2. CFS participants will have lower observer-rated emotional expression in both suppression and nonsuppression conditions tha HC. 3. For the CFS group, there will be a significant association between autonomic arousal and posttask increases in fatigue. 4. When given the choice about how to respond, CFS participants will self-report more suppression than HC, and self-reported supression during the task will be associated with a pre task measure of beliefs about the acceptability

Human beings are not immune to diseases. Since the dawn of time, humans have been fighting with illnesses from simple colds to flu to unnamed diseases back then. Nowadays, humans have been able to fight diseases with the use of medications and modern inventions. However, there are diseases that may not be fully cured that man has to live with the rest of their lives. The chronically ill individuals need to manage their illness properly to maintain quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to look into two case studies and to better understand on how to manage chronic illness at their respective developmental stage.

In Scheper-Hughes’s ethnography, “nervoso” is appropriated by medicine and transformed into an illness. Due to the biomedical model, this folk syndrome is made into a disease, through which its somatic symptoms can be medicated. Likewise, in Biehl’s ethnography, any symptom, whether it be somatic or psychological, is treated with pharmaceuticals. This enforcement of medicine is normalized and unquestioned because in both of these societies, although thirty years apart, biomedicalization is deeply entrenched. This is partly due to the