Lesson learnt: do not wiki the illness you are afflicted with unless you are prepared to accept what it would tell you. When I got to the bit that said "six months", I began to sob uncontrollably that my tears blurred my vision and I couldn't go on reading. When I finally got a hold of myself, I decided to SMS my good friend who is a medical doctor to ask him to confirm the veracity of this wiki article.
I managed to finish reading the whole wiki entry at some point, but with each paragraph I was being crushed more and more. It was too spot on that it actually got scary. Those are all of MY symptoms, for crying out loud.
Then my phone started to ring and it was him, my MD friend that I had consulted earlier. Apparently he had already flipped through his textbook to revisit that very short bit on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He proceeded to interrogate me about my symptoms and asked me to give him my abridged medical history, in typical doctor fashion. We had a very good talk and he was able to knock some sense into this very stupid head. He balanced his dual role of being a physician and my good friend throughout the conversation, and I love him to pieces for it - even if it meant having to berate me for blindly believing what fricken Wikipedia had to say about my sickness. Well, in such uncontrollable surges of emotion one is likely to forget that Wikipedia is not exactly the most reliable fount of knowledge around.
At this point in time, I just really want to have my life back. I'm very, very tired as it is.
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