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=== Perfectionism and overactivity === According to Van Houdenhove ME/CFS patients partly create their own stress, for example by being too [[personality traits and patient attitudes in ME/CFS|perfectionistic]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Luyten | first = Patrick | last2 = Van Houdenhove | first2 = Boudewijn | last3 = Cosyns | first3 = Nele | last4 = Van den Broeck | first4 = Anne-Lies | date = 2006-05-01 | title = Are patients with chronic fatigue syndrome perfectionistic—or were they? A case-control study | url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886906000043 | journal = Personality and Individual Differences | volume = 40 | issue = 7 | pages = 1473–1483|doi=10.1016/j.paid.2005.10.023|issn=0191-8869}}</ref><ref name=":15">Van Houdenove B, Neerinckx E. (1998). [http://www.tijdschriftvoorpsychiatrie.nl/assets/articles/articles_510pdf.pdf Overzichtsartikel De ziel uit het lijf... Verhoogt een overactieve levensstijl de vatbaarheid voor het chronische-vermoeidheidssyndroom?] Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie 40 (4).</ref> In one of his first major studies into the disease, he showed that ME/CFS patients were more "action-prone", meaning naturally more active, than healthy controls or people with anxiety disorders, and at a similar level to people with chronic musculoskeletal pain.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal | last = Van Houdenhove | first = B. | author-link = Boudewijn Van Houdenhove | last2 = Onghena | first2 = P. | author-link2 = Patrick Onghena | last3 = Neerinckx | first3 = E. | author-link3 = Eddy Neerinckx | last4 = Hellin | first4 = J. | author-link4 = J Hellin | author-link5 = | date = Jul 1995 | title = Does high 'action-proneness' make people more vulnerable to chronic fatigue syndrome? A controlled psychometric study | url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7490698 | journal = Journal of Psychosomatic Research | volume = 39 | issue = 5 | pages = 633–640|issn=0022-3999|pmid=7490698|quote=|via=}}</ref> Van Houdenhoe argued that these patients weren't [[Stigma and discrimination|lazy]] or too sedentary as is sometimes claimed by proponents of the [[deconditioning]] hypothesis, instead they were overactive.<ref name=":15" /> According to Van Houdenhove, they showed the same 'ergomania' he had previously seen in his unexplained [[chronic pain]] patients.<ref name=":16" />
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