Yuppie flue

[SandyDown]

Whatever happened to Yuppie flue /Chronic fatigue syndrome/M.E? there was a time when every company I worked for had one or two people on long term sick leave with M.E !! Is everyone now eating better/healthily, working less hours and exercising, hence the whole phenomenon is gone?

[Platypus]

Whatever happened to Yuppie flue /Chronic fatigue syndrome/M.E? there was a time when every company I worked for had one or two people on long term sick leave with M.E !! Is everyone now eating better/healthily, working less hours and exercising, hence the whole phenomenon is gone?

Yuppie chimney problems?

[Lucy]

Friend of mine suffered from M.E for 15 years, she suicided a couple of months ago.

[OwlHoot]

How's your chicken pox coming on Lucy?

(I had that when I was 16.)

[NickFitz]

Whatever happened to Yuppie flue /Chronic fatigue syndrome/M.E? there was a time when every company I worked for had one or two people on long term sick leave with M.E !! Is everyone now eating better/healthily, working less hours and exercising, hence the whole phenomenon is gone?

Myalgic Encephalopathy, which used to be dismissed with the disparaging term "yuppie flu" and was then vaguely characterised as "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" is now a recognised medical condition, so those who actually do suffer from it are probably on Sickness or Disability Benefit, whilst those who were just workshy malingering hypochondriacs have had to go back to actually earning a living.

More info is available at the ME Association and various other websites that can be found by asking Google.

[DimPrawn]

There is also a variant known as Contractor Flu, or ME ME ME! as it is sometimes called.

HTH

[Churchill]

Friend of mine suffered from M.E for 15 years, she suicided a couple of months ago.

Just shows how crap your counselling is then, doesn't it?

[TimberWolf]

There is also a variant known as Contractor Flu, or ME ME ME! as it is sometimes called.

HTH

No, that's part of the computer code for human. This sequence may be longer for contractors than for the average human, but it's still short compared to many other personality programmes.

[Lockhouse]

A lot of people who were diagnosed with ME actually had Fibromyalgia - about which more is only recently becoming known. Today is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day by the way.

http://www.fibromyalgia-associationu...nt/view/227/1/

[NotAllThere]

Thing is, ME is much easier to spell.