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emotional pem depression hormones

  1. nina22

    Is Emotional PEM a thing?

    Apologies if there’s a thread about this elsewhere but I wanted to see if this is a specific CFS symptom or if I’m imagining it… so sometimes when I’m bedridden with PEM it just feels like a heavy brain fog but emotionally I’m fairly cheerful, just “crap this sucks” and then I watch tv. But at...