In the past ME was a condition that provoked as much ridicule as sympathy. Some doctors dismissed it as ‘Yuppie Flu’, those who accepted it was an illness were at a loss over how to treat it.Today NICE – the body that sets the national treatment standards - recognises ME . But groups representing people with ME are divided over the use of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT to treat it. One group is trying to take NICE to a judicial review over the inclusion of CBT in its treatment guidelines. Carolyn Atkinson begins her report with Carol Coombes who’s struggled with ME for 12 years. Last year her condition took a turn for the worse.
