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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Newsweek (1990)
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== Depression dismissed == *"Chronic fatigue syndrome is sometimes dismissed as depression, but the two illnesses have very different effects on people's mental abilities." :''Excerpt'' :*Most people, whether healthy or depressed, can improve their performance on a memorization test by using cues. But cues are largely worthless to CFS patients, suggesting a diminished ability to form new memories. :*A depressed person can handle a brief interruption when trying to memorize something. CFS patients' performance suffers six times as much from the interruption. :*When asked to predict how they'll do on a cognitive test, depressed people tend to underestimate their abilities, but CFS patients tend to overestimate theirs. *"CFS strikes people whose psyches are demonstrably healthy and promptly ruins their lives. 'Depression requires a loss of interest in everything,' Cheney observes. 'These patients are just the opposite. They're terribly concerned about what their symptoms mean. They can't function. They can't work. Many are petrified. But they do not lack interest in their surroundings.'"
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