Neurasthenia Quotes

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“As a doctor who has been bedridden with severe ME for a long period after GET caused a severe relapse from which I have not recovered, I am in a unique position to combine the patient and doctor perspective...”
Mark Vink

“I wish to clarify the situation regarding the classification of neurasthenia, fatigue syndrome, post-viral fatigue syndrome and benign myalgic encephalomyelitis. Let me state clearly that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not changed its position on these disorders... Post-viral fatigue syndrome remains under the diseases of nervous system as G93.3. Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis is included within this category.
Neurasthenia remains under mental and behavioural disorders as F48.0 and fatigue syndrome is included in this category. However, post-viral fatigue syndrome is explicitly excluded from F48.0.”
Benedetto Saraceno

Richard von Krafft-Ebing
“Almost every masturbator at last reaches a point where, frightened on learning the results of the vice, or on experiencing them (neurasthenia), or led by example or seduction to the opposite sex, he wishes to free himself of the vice and re-instate his sexual life.”
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study