16Apr

Childhood Trauma Contributes To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

By Geoff Michaels, April 16th, 2013 | Health | 5 Comments

Researchers have found that childhood trauma contributes to the development of chronic fatigue syndrome. The study was carried out by researchers from Emory University School of Medicine, with the study being supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

They looked at a total of 113 adults who had chronic fatigue syndrome, and 124 who did not.

They then looked into the history of these adults to see who went through any type of childhood trauma such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, etc.

What they found was that adults who went through childhood trauma were six times more likely to develop chronic fatigue syndrome later in life.

Kathryn Mollenhauer says:

April 20, 2013 at 6:19 am

I have a history of childhood trauma and abuse as well as a triggering episode of an infection so it one on top of the other.

Margaret Rumney says:

April 18, 2013 at 12:18 pm

Can’t believe this utter rubbish has cropped up again. The author of this is clearly very lazy not to have done proper research and resorting to reporting out of date stuff.

Linda Mills says:

April 17, 2013 at 7:34 am

Re-hashing old junk ‘science’ from a study done by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University? Seriously? One of the authors of the study was W.C. Reeves (deceased). That would be William Reeves, formerly of the CDC. This was a man who, for decades, allowed countless lives to be ruined - lives which are still being ruined - due to psychobabble nonsense like this, for which he was infamous, and due to his refusal, while at the CDC, to allow SERIOUS scientific research to be done to discover the cause or causes of CFS. Well done, Geoff Michaels, and, yes, I’m being sarcastic. You might want to try to report on the findings of real science journals and medical studies instead of ‘publishing’ drivel such as this.

Lisa Kishkon says:

April 17, 2013 at 4:33 am

Do you read science journals and currrent medical studies? This really is crack reporting … NOT! Nowhere do you reveal sources. People really need to be cautious and look at the author of web ‘articles’ before jumping to conclusions.

John Gabor says:

April 16, 2013 at 9:04 pm

What kind of grave digging journalism is this. It is from a January 2009 press release. Has the study been scientifically reviewed? I doubt it. ME/CFS has been shown over and over to clearly be an illness related to an infection.