Horizon 1988

To be told 'your illness is all in the mind' or 'pull yourself together'

'Post-viral syndrome'

'Yuppie 'flu'

'Royal Free disease'

or 'myalgic encephalomyelitis', has divided medical opinion for over 30 years.

Now, thousands of patients are struggling for recognition of this distressing condition, while fighting the fundamental attitudes of doctors to diagnosis and disease. But as some patients suffer, others try a fresh approach: independently of their doctors ...

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