Between Doubt and Diagnosis: Patient Experiences of Emotional Harm from Diagnostic Delays

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399126001436

As someone who took 5.5 long, tough years to get diagnosed with ME/CFS, this topic interests me

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ME Research UK:

Delayed diagnosis has been found to lead to ‘emotional harm’, primarily stemming from feeling dismissed by clinicians, rather than the delay itself. 

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5du3bhav

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