From Crawford McKelvey
I have had chronic fatigue syndrome and at one point had a completely
reversed sleep pattern (which was stable). Bright light corrected my sleep
pattern but made me more ill. Melatonin simply gave me headaches. Eventually, my
sleep pattern righted itself after a week-long chaotic phase.
You mention cognitive behavioural therapy. The tragedy is that CBT is a
chimera: half behavioural, half brainwashing. No one wants to touch it. I was
treated by a neurologist whose technique is similar to CBT, minus the
psychobabble.
Of course, my recovery also required a five-year wait for my immune system to
stop malfunctioning.
Belfast
