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== Learn more == *2019, [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/a-town-for-people-with-chronic-fatigue A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] - New Yorker - about Ampligen '''Guides and reports''' *[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_ZwdR4567k-mSoWahnC_id0F_fAA3Fb/view Caring for People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis] (2008)<ref name=":14" /> Guide for Caretakers *"[[In the Expectation of Recovery]]" by the [[Citizen Network]] UK '''[[Patient mental health]]''' :Patients that had been deemed as suffering from mental health and not a biological illness: :*[[Karina Hansen]] is a young [[Denmark|Danish]] woman taken from her family for 3 1/2 years due to [[Per Fink]]'s insistence her ME was due to mental health issues. :*[[Sophia Mirza]] was taken forcibly from her home to a mental hospital only to be returned shortly after; she then died of ME. :*[[Ean Proctor]] was taken from his parents as a young boy and he was told his "parents were letting him die." He had become [[paralysis|paralyzed]] and mute and was let go in the deep end of a pool to make him swim, and put on a scary theme park ride to scare him into moving. *ME/CFS is not [[depression]]. It causes a lack of energy, not a lack of desire to do activities.<ref name="Griffith, 2008">{{Cite journal | last1 = Griffith | first1 = J.P. | authorlink1 = | last2 = Zarrouf | first2 = F.A. | authorlink2 = | title = A Systematic Review of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Donβt Assume Itβs Depression| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292451/| pmc =2292451| journal = Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | volume = 10 | issue = 2 | page = 120β128| date = 2008 | pmid = 18458765 | doi = 10.4088/pcc.v10n0206 }}</ref><ref name="Hawk, 2006">{{Cite journal | last1 = Hawk | first1 = C | authorlink1 = | last2 = Jason | first2 = L | authorlink2 = Leonard Jason | last3 = Torres-Harding | first3 = S | authorlink3 = Susan Torres-Harding| title = Differential diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome and major depressive disorder | journal = International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | volume = 13 | issue = 3 | page = 244-51 | date = 2006 | pmid = 17078775 | doi = 10.1207/s15327558ijbm1303_8 | url = http://www.healthrising.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hawk.-Jason.-Differential-Diagnosis-of-Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome-and-Major-Depressive-Disorder.pdf }}</ref><ref name="myhill" /> '''Outbreaks''' * [[1984 Incline Village chronic fatigue syndrome outbreak|Incline Village]] outbreak of 1984 began the research that led to the diagnostic construct [[Fukuda criteria|Fukuda]] and name of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] *[[List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks|List of outbreaks]]
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