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==Inability to push through == Some ME/CFS patients find themselves totally unable to push through their symptoms, the intensity of the symptoms becomes too severe, and this is not necessarily limited to [[severe and very severe ME|severe ME/CFS]] patients. Professor [[Malcolm Hooper]] describes British politician Brynmor John's experience of ME/CFS: "On 13th December 1988 Brynmor John MP died from [[ME/CFS]]. His experience of the illness was all too familiar: {{Quote|text=Though there is only a slight gradient from our house to the main road, it could have been the North face of the Eiger. I just could not get up it.|source=Magical Medicine: How to make a disease disappear (2010)}} "He found himself unable to dress; the slightest [[exertion]] exhausted him and it took days to regain his strength. He was irritated by the profusion of [[Biopsychosocial model|psychiatric comment]] and was trying to ensure better understanding of [[ME/CFS]] (Perspectives, Summer 1991:28β30). Brynmor John suddenly collapsed and died as he was leaving the UK Parliament's House of Commons gym after having been advised to [[exercise]] back to fitness."<ref name=magicalmedicine>{{Citation | last = Hooper | first = Malcolm | authorlink = Malcolm Hooper | last2 = Williams | first2 = Margaret | authorlink2 = Margaret Williams| title = Magical Medicine: How to make a disease disappear | date = Spring 2010|url= http://www.investinme.org/Documents/Library/magical-medicine.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Price2012">{{Cite book |chapter=We are the ones we have been waiting for | first =Adam | last = Price |quote =The Pontypridd by-election, following the death from exhaustion of Brynmor John was held on 23 February that year. | title =25/25 Vision: Welsh Horizons Across 50 Years | pages =108-109 | url=https://www.iwa.wales/wp-content/media/2016/03/25-25-vision-midsize-optimized-1.pdf | date = Sep 2012 |publisher =Institute of Welsh Affairs | editor-first = John | editor-last = Osmond|editor-first2 = Peter |editor-last2=Finch}}</ref>
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