Personality change

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Personality change can occur as a symptom of ME/CFS.

Prevalence

  • Katrina Berne reports a prevalence of 55-75% for personality changes.[1]
  • 74.4% - 77.2% of the 2073 patients in a Belgian study of 2001 reported personality change.[2]

Potential causes

References

  1. Berne, Katrina (December 1, 1995), Running on Empty: The Complete Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFIDS), 2nd ed., Hunter House, p. 60, ISBN 978-0897931915
  2. De Becker, P; McGregor, N; De Meirleir, K (September 2001), "A definition-based analysis of symptoms in a large cohort of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.", Journal of Internal Medicine, 250 (3): 234-240, PMID 11555128