The main factors contributing to suicidal thoughts:
– being told the disease was only psychosomatic
– being at the end of one’s strength
– not feeling being understood by others
Dr. Markus Fraczek on twitter
In response to a recent Swiss study on the mental health burden on Swiss ME-patients:
Highlights
• First time study on mental health and well-being among M/CFS patients in Switzerland.
• High level (68.5%) of stigmatization reported due to ME/CFS.
• Overall, ME/CFS led to a third of the patients and to half of the male patients to have suicidal thoughts.
• ME/CFS led to secondary depression in 14.8% of the patients. • Lack of disease recognition and adequate patient support.
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