That is certainly what people think and why I feel I need to pipe up whenever these threads get started.
While certainly some with ME/CFS are so bad that they cannot get out of bed the vast majority have good and bad days and you don't see them on their bad days and they look just like everyone else on their good days. One of the reasons it's considered an invisible disease. It's a spectrum and some people manage it better than others.
Sometimes the burnout isn't so temporary - even this article talks about how repeated burnout becomes an problem with the person entering a state of depression which bares a lot of similarities to ME/CFS.
Most people with ME/CFS will never be diagnosed and those people will often think they just have issues with burnout. That's what I though for over 20 years and I have a severe form of it. I though I was managing burnout and then graves disease. It never occurred to me that I would have something like ME/CFS until I stumbled on a random twitter comment that linked ME/CFS with hypermobility which I also have a severe form of. So here I am adding my comments to the internet.
There are generally a whole bunch of rather weird and rather rare comorbidities that occur in people i.e. it is known by its associates. That's what a lot of Dr. Jessica Eccles work goes into.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch from going from your personal experiences to generalization to "much of burnout is"?
Fairly certain it wasn't the case for me anyway, I can see what caused me burning out, and can also see what I did to help me get out + prevent it from happening again.
I'm clearly not basing everything on my experience and pointed to a medical researcher Dr. Jessica Eccles who is doing large studies. Like many people who end up in this state I talk to many other people who also ended up in this state.
The advent of covid and the long covid that has brought with it has resulted in a large number of people who were previously well and are now very sick. There are public studies done around this cohort and I've done a number of private studies of > 60 people with long covid and I have the WGS of > 15 people who have the SNPs that I'm interested in - which is a rather large number for a 'rare' disease and especially large for a private person.
Attribution is difficult, it's very easy to mistake one thing for another, disambiguation requires careful consideration.
Yeah, I believe that's some kind of personal bias. For example,I think that much of burnout (and anxiety) is caused by undiagnosed CPTSD (Complex/Childhood PTSD). But that's probably because it's a source of my problems and now I see it everywhere.
While certainly some with ME/CFS are so bad that they cannot get out of bed the vast majority have good and bad days and you don't see them on their bad days and they look just like everyone else on their good days. One of the reasons it's considered an invisible disease. It's a spectrum and some people manage it better than others.
Sometimes the burnout isn't so temporary - even this article talks about how repeated burnout becomes an problem with the person entering a state of depression which bares a lot of similarities to ME/CFS.
Most people with ME/CFS will never be diagnosed and those people will often think they just have issues with burnout. That's what I though for over 20 years and I have a severe form of it. I though I was managing burnout and then graves disease. It never occurred to me that I would have something like ME/CFS until I stumbled on a random twitter comment that linked ME/CFS with hypermobility which I also have a severe form of. So here I am adding my comments to the internet.
There are generally a whole bunch of rather weird and rather rare comorbidities that occur in people i.e. it is known by its associates. That's what a lot of Dr. Jessica Eccles work goes into.