German Association for ME/CFS, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
Research Center CATALPA, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58097 Hagen, Germany.
Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Dec 31;60(1):83. doi: 10.3390/medicina60010083.
Since 1969, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) has been classified as a neurological disease in the International Classification of Diseases by the World Health Organization. Although numerous studies over time have uncovered organic abnormalities in patients with ME/CFS, and the majority of researchers to date classify the disease as organic, many physicians still believe that ME/CFS is a psychosomatic illness. In this article, we show how detrimental this belief is to the care and well-being of affected patients and, as a consequence, how important the education of physicians and the public is to stop misdiagnosis, mistreatment, and stigmatization on the grounds of incorrect psychosomatic attributions about the etiology and clinical course of ME/CFS.
自 1969 年以来，世界卫生组织（WHO）将肌痛性脑脊髓炎/慢性疲劳综合征（ME/CFS）归类为一种神经系统疾病。尽管随着时间的推移，大量研究已经发现 ME/CFS 患者存在器官异常，而且迄今为止大多数研究人员将该疾病归类为器质性疾病，但许多医生仍然认为 ME/CFS 是一种心身疾病。在本文中，我们将展示这种信念对受影响患者的护理和福祉有何危害，以及因此对医生和公众进行教育以阻止基于对 ME/CFS 的病因和临床过程的不正确的心身归因而导致误诊、不当治疗和污名化的重要性。
