> doctors dismiss patients as crazy or "making it up."
I don't think that's true, at least not in my experience anyway. People (myself included) are too quick to conflate "all in your head" with "making it up".
Things "in your head" can and do have real, physical, life-limiting, effects.
If it turns out that ME/CFS doesn't has a physical marker, then what? There may never be a way to verifiably test for it other than symptomatically. It's no less real for the people living with the effects, but there may be no pill to take, or injection to administer.
I don't think that's true, at least not in my experience anyway. People (myself included) are too quick to conflate "all in your head" with "making it up".
Things "in your head" can and do have real, physical, life-limiting, effects.
If it turns out that ME/CFS doesn't has a physical marker, then what? There may never be a way to verifiably test for it other than symptomatically. It's no less real for the people living with the effects, but there may be no pill to take, or injection to administer.