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Mine were low end of normal range, just under 300. GP of course dismissed it as “normal” but I was alarmed given how many symptoms of B12 deficiency I had so I began supplementing immediately.

Back when my ME was becoming moderate (later severe) and I was still trying to push myself to work not knowing WTF was going on, my legs were covered in bruises from bumping into things. I had near-constant ataxia and a feeling of disequilibrium. I fell outside several times, even ending up in...

Good point. Just shows the dangers of continuing use of CDC criteria. Neurological and GI symptoms are part and parcel of many people's presentations. IBS and food intolerances seem extremely common. Dysautonomia (which is a neurological symptom) seems almost universal.

No. It's an open access journal Scientific Reports which is part of the Nature publishing group but the bar for publication is drastically lower than in Nature itself.

Wow. CBT = theater of the absurd

I don't think there's any evidence of this. I think that the heart palpitations and other issues have nothing to do with the aetiology of regular-person heart disease like atherosclerosis.

The reply is reassuring.

Agreed. Lack of initiative/drive tends to travel with lack of pleasure/anhedonia (both underpinned by dopaminergic reward pathways), not necessarily low or depressed mood per se. In fact, mood can be normal or even elevated in such states.