![]() ![]() It was- you know, I’m a science writer, so I respect and care about science, and at a quick glance this study looked really good.ĪNNIE MINOFF: It was in the Lancet, for one thing. JULIE REHMEYER: It was really confusing and shocking to me. And so for Julie, dragging herself upstairs on her butt, it just seemed clear that there was something wrong physically wrong with her.ĮLAH FEDER: So when she sees this New York Times headline that says she might feel better with psychotherapy, it rubs her the wrong way. So she’d spent her days chopping straw and lugging big buckets of mud around. And she loved exercising, even ran a marathon.ĪNNIE MINOFF: She was actually in the middle of building her own house when she first got sick. She had a master’s in math from MIT-she’s actually a science writer by profession. Before she got sick, she was a bit of an overachiever. I couldn't do anything.ĪNNIE MINOFF: The CDC calls chronic fatigue syndrome a debilitating disorder, says you can get muscle pain, memory problems, swollen lymph nodes… You can rest all you want, this fatigue will not go away.ĮLAH FEDER: And this was a big change for Julie. So, um, you know the metro was half a mile away. JULIE REHMEYER: I couldn't get up and down the stairs. I thought it just meant people were really tired.ĪNNIE MINOFF: Like everyone’s really tired.ĮLAH FEDER: Exactly. okay.ĪNNIE MINOFF: Julie’d been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome five years earlier, and she had this experience where people would tell her “it’s all in your head.”ĮLAH FEDER: Yeah, so I have to admit that when I started working on this episode, I really didn’t know much about chronic fatigue syndrome. ![]() JULIE REHMEYER: And I thought, whoa, psychotherapy. JULIE REHMEYER: I am lying in bed, reading the New York Times on my cell phone ‘cause I’m too weak to sit up to use my computer, and I see this headline that says, Psychotherapy eases chronic fatigue syndrome, study says.ĮLAH FEDER: A new study had just come out that found talk therapy could help people with chronic fatigue syndrome. On with our story.ĮLAH FEDER: It’s February 2011 when Julie Rehmeyer reads something that upsets her. A quick note to our listeners: In a couple places this episode, there is some language that you would not hear on the radio. Also, if you are quoting from an Undiscovered episode, please check your text against the original audio as some errors may have occurred during transcription.ĪNNIE MINOFF: And this is Undiscovered, a podcast about the backstories of science. Important things like emotion and emphasis are often lost in transcripts. Undiscovered is produced for your ears! Whenever possible, we recommend listening to-not reading-our episodes. ![]()
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