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As another ME/CFS patient I think what's needed is doctors that are trained to diagnose difficult to diagnose diseases, which GPs can refer to. Lives are being ruined first by these illnesses, then by a dysfunctional system which has not taken steps to meet the medical needs of these patients. There are many young patients with a serious life altering illness that just fall through the cracks of the system.

How do you feel about the mental disorders being subjective diagnoses? How far are we from having objectively diagnoses mental disorders?

Mestinon seems to work for some. Rituximab is being trialled and could be an effective treatment for a subset https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02229942

This is a good article on treatment of CFS, albeit in adolescents (which seem to have better prognosis than adults): Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diagnosis and Management in Young People: A Primer Medication for pain and sleep.

I'm surprised anyone would still make a diagnosis of conversion disorder. I thought Freud has been thoroughly discredited as quack.

How did you end up getting a real diagnosis?

It's hard to believe it took her such a short time compared to the others. How did they pretend to treat the conversion disorder by the way?