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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 503915" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Depression is a likely possibility, Kathy. And it would aggravate the fatigue. Also, for a lot of difficult children, depression simply because they know they're different and hate it, is a very common finding.</p><p></p><p>Teens do sleep a lot more - it's the growth hormones and a lot of other things. But CFS is a different matter. It's a physical exhaustion coupled with feeling generally unwell, weak, tired (not necessarily sleepy) and also mentally "foggy". We used to have CFS "in" jokes - "what do you call someone with CFS who sleeps 12 hours a day? A: an insomniac". (note - this joke was written by someone with CFS, so it's not someone else being mean). A kid with CFS is unlikely to physically hold things together for the whole school day. Most teens I've known with CFS were much more severely affected than adults tended to be. CFS seems to hit kids harder. I've seen kids with CFS who couldn't even hold their heads up. </p><p></p><p>A kid who is able to cope for an entire school day and hold it together, especially a difficult child - it's not a physical illness. But the emotional effort and mental effort of trying to maintain for the day is something a lot of us have seen in our kids and in one another's kids. I don't see this as unusual (sadly).</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 503915, member: 1991"] Depression is a likely possibility, Kathy. And it would aggravate the fatigue. Also, for a lot of difficult children, depression simply because they know they're different and hate it, is a very common finding. Teens do sleep a lot more - it's the growth hormones and a lot of other things. But CFS is a different matter. It's a physical exhaustion coupled with feeling generally unwell, weak, tired (not necessarily sleepy) and also mentally "foggy". We used to have CFS "in" jokes - "what do you call someone with CFS who sleeps 12 hours a day? A: an insomniac". (note - this joke was written by someone with CFS, so it's not someone else being mean). A kid with CFS is unlikely to physically hold things together for the whole school day. Most teens I've known with CFS were much more severely affected than adults tended to be. CFS seems to hit kids harder. I've seen kids with CFS who couldn't even hold their heads up. A kid who is able to cope for an entire school day and hold it together, especially a difficult child - it's not a physical illness. But the emotional effort and mental effort of trying to maintain for the day is something a lot of us have seen in our kids and in one another's kids. I don't see this as unusual (sadly). Marg [/QUOTE]
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