title: A personal encounter with a mystery illness.
abstract: I urge all practitioners to accept that 'chronic fatigue' patients have genuine symptoms. This disease can cause depression, but for most patients it is not caused by depression. I acknowledge that a depressed patient can develop the chronic fatigue syndrome in the same way that they can contract any other disease. If you are unable to diagnose a patient with these symptoms please refer them to a centre specialising in this devastating and poorly understood disease.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lopis
mesh_terms: D015673:Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male