In the essay, Old wine in new bottles: neurasthenia and ' ME ', he wrote: "Evidence is presented of the striking resonances between neurasthenia and ME. [me-pedia.org]

Poster session presented at the Eighth AnnualConvention of the American Psychological Society; Toronto, Ontario; August,1996. 17. Cheung FM. Conceptualization of psychiatric illness andhelp-seeking behavior among Chinese. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Palpitations

  It was used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia and depressed mood. [dailymail.co.uk]

  Van Deusen of the Kalamazoo asylum in 1869, [1] followed a few months later by New York neurologist George Beard, also in 1869 [2] to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, heart palpitations, high blood pressure, neuralgia, and [en.wikipedia.org]

• Irritability

  […] noun mass noun dated An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. [lexico.com]

  Fatigue is the essential symptom for both diagnoses;others that overlap include muscle pain, headaches, inability to concentrate,irritability, and sleep disturbance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  […] chronic abnormal fatigability, moderate depression, inability to concentrate, loss of appetite, insomnia, and other symptoms. [3] The secondary symptoms were ill-defined and abundant, including headaches, muscle aches and pain, dizziness, weight loss, irritability [me-pedia.org]

  'Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilisation was causing a host of ills - everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. [dailymail.co.uk]

  Freud included a variety of physical symptoms in this category, including fatigue, dyspepsia with flatulence, and indications of intra-cranial pressure and spinal irritation. [6] In common with some other people of the time, he believed this condition [en.wikipedia.org]

‘Whether it is a lung disease or neurasthenia, the symptoms and treatment methods are not uniform.’ [lexico.com]

This treatment, which has its basis inZen Buddhism, is aimed at breaking the cycle of sensitivity and anxiety (see www.morita-therapy.org ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Treatment [ edit ] Beard, with his partner A.D. Rockwell, advocated first electrotherapy and then increasingly experimental treatments for people with neurasthenia, a position that was controversial. [en.wikipedia.org]

However, electrotherapy and more experimental treatments were also advocated, along with a drug called 'Americantitis Elixir'. [dailymail.co.uk]

China In the 1983 version of Chinese-English Terminology of TraditionalChinese Medicine, the etiology of neurasthenia is described as a decreasein vital energy ( qi ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

They found that those students in whom neurasthenia wasdiagnosed had experienced symptoms of depression, as measured by the Centerfor Epidemiological Studies-DepressionScale. 14 Zheng and colleagues studied data from the Chinese American PsychiatricEpidemiological [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Weir Mitchell, wrote the book, Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked, detailing his belief that the condition was a result of the demands of modern life in the industrial era. [2] The term began to transition out of use in medical pathophysiology [me-pedia.org]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Factsabout Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Atlanta, GA: US Dept of Healthand Human Services; 1994. 8. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]