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Another paper by Chalder and colleagues compared ME/CFS with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), seronegative spondyloarthropathy (SpA), and connective tissue disease (CTD). The rheumatic diseases had a mean for all or nothing behaviour around 8 and ME/CFS patients a mean around 10, so similar results to...

For a fair comparison, one should control not only for age and sex but probably also for fatigue (or some other measure of disability).

One thing that wasn't mentioned in the blog is that boom and bust is often equated with all-or-nothing behavior as measured with the Cognitive and Behavioural Responses to Symptoms Questionnaire (CBRQ) subscale which contains the following 5 statements: I tend to overdo things when I feel...