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==PTSD and ME/CFS== Dr. [[Nancy Klimas]] and Dr. [[Mary Ann Fletcher]] surveyed patients of chronic illness on the experience of living through Hurricane Andrew, a Category-5 hurricane that hit Florida in 1992.<ref name="Lutgendorf, 1995" /> During the survey they found that post-traumatic stress disorder is more common in [[ME/CFS]] patients than in other patients with chronic illness, even for those who did not live through the hurricane. Upon further examination, Dr. Klimas found that the increased incidence of PTSD was attributed to the poor treatment of ME/CFS patients by the medical community, as well as the stigma surrounding the illness and the general lack of support patients receive.<ref name="Weir, 2014" /> Patients reported in the study that the trauma that had happened in physicians' offices was related to "being disregarded, being patronized, being dismissed, and told you're crazy, or go get your hair changed, or you need a new boyfriend, divorce your husband" repeatedly by different physicians instead of being given medical care for their symptoms.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMimz3iDk0s</ref> In an interview in the Miami Herald in 2009, Klimas said: "I've had patients who met posttraumatic stress disorder criteria, where their trauma was their interaction with their physician around this illness. They came to a doctor with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; they left the doctor with PTSD."<ref>http://www.cfsfacts.org/2009/03/nancy-klimas-interview.html?m=1</ref> Both PTSD and chronic illness increase the risk of [[suicide]], which is higher in ME/CFS patients then the general population.<ref name="McManimen, 2016" /> A 2012 study by Dansie, et al, investigated the co-occurrence of [[Chronic fatigue syndrome|CFS]], PTSD, and trauma symptoms and concluded "that a lifetime diagnosis of CFS is strongly associated with both lifetime PTSD and current traumatic symptoms."<ref name="Dansie, 2012" />
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