Posh Depressed People
who can't bear the idea of having depression (it's just sooooo council estate, my dears) and so have to swoon about having ME instead.

I will now prepare for the onslaught of long rambling replies from ME fans explaining that it's not depression, that they know better than medical science what causes it and that they have no energy to do anything except write angry replies about ME, demand more funding for ME, join and run ME organisation, write more angry replies about ME and so on.

So, anyone tempted to write a long and furious reply. If you have the energy to do it, I've cured you. That will be 250gn, please.
(ubergeekian, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:04, 14 replies)

What is ME?
I'd look it up but I'm too depressed.
(uncle_bud is not the jelly roll king., Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:10, closed)

*rises to the bait*
Yeah, but seriously, it must be quite depressing having a disease which rots your brainstem like that. We don't know what CAUSES it, but we do know the biomedical RESULTS. There's a difference. Your opinion seems to be stuck in the 80s.

Also, I don't have ME. It's not just people who are affected that know what they're talking about, y'know.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:28, closed)

I don't have ME either
I'm just a lazy cunt.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:33, closed)

Are you sure it rots your brainstem?
Even the ME Association prefers Myalgic Encephalopathy to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:40, closed)

I prefer
ME = just feeling a bit bleugh.
(karnuvap, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:16, closed)

I dunno, I was being dramatic.
I know someone who's had it for going on 15 years now, and her latest tests showed that it was happening... but I don't know if it's symptomatic of ME, or something else.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:49, closed)

OK
it's just Myalgic Encephalomyelitis does mean inflammation of the brain/brain stem, which is what people used to think was a symptom of ME/CFS. But it's not. In fact there are almost no measurable symptoms which are consistent to all sufferers. My niece has been a sufferer for 15 years, I pick up a lot from her parents. Even they are convinced it's more a mental than a physical disorder
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:49, closed)

There are measurable symptoms.
You'll find the table in this interesting- it's a comparison with MS. www.hfme.org/mevsms.htm
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:16, closed)

It's not really an objective
or scientific study.

It's someone with ME complaining about how people don't undersand ME.

Lots of that about.
(username failed moderation, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 17:14, closed)

Well I would have directed you here:
www.investinme.org/InfoCentre%20-%20Journal%20of%20IiME.htm
if I'd known that's what you were after.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 17:24, closed)

It's always 'me me me' with you, isn't it?
you selfish bastard.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 13:30, closed)

argh fuck

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:01, closed)

Eh?
ME and depression have completely different symptoms.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 15:30, closed)

it's just ME, ME, ME, with you isn't it?

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 16:00, closed)