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There are certainly some parallels to be drawn from chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorder symptoms. Anxiety, depression, panic attacks and mood swings are just a few of the symptoms which can be associated with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or post-viral fatigue syndrome which it is also known whereas they pretty much sum up anxiety disorders.

 

Basically these symptoms can result because of chronic fatigue syndrome, they certainly do not cause it. It is a real disease and

its causes are physical. The anxiety symptoms which can occur are a result of the disease and the stress and strains it causes to the mind and body.

 

Because it can be a severely debilitating condition it can cause many emotional responses such as anger, fear, frustration and anxiety which coincide with the physical pain of sore joints, headaches, muscle pain etc. and ultimately exacerbate the effects of the disease.

 

This is why chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorder often t

end to be diagnosed together. One is a bi product of the other.  It is similar in fact to irritable bowel syndrome. It is often questioned whether stress causes IBS of whether IBS causes stress when in truth it is generally a combination of both cases.

 

However in the case of chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorders it is a one way street, the post viral fatigue syndrome causes the anxiety and not the other way around.

 

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in America

, the CDC, lists a diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and anxiety disorders do not appear on the list which correctly suggests that anxiety is a bi product of CFS and not a symptom.