MARQUETTE, MI-- Peter White Public Library is hosting a film about one of the most misunderstood diseases in the world: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or CFS.
“Unrest” film coordinator and CFS sufferer, Kelly Parks, says it’s a neuro-immune disease whose symptoms include profound fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, sleep abnormalities, and pain. It causes dysfunction of the immune, nervous, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, endocrine and energy metabolism systems.
Parks says more than 75 percent of the 30 million people worldwide who have CFS cannot work, and nearly 25 percent of patients are homebound.
Parks says doctors who diagnose CFS often tell their patients to see a psychotherapist and get exercise—which can make the condition worse.
Parks says she hopes people walk away from the film with a better understanding of an often stigmatized disease.
“I hope that viewers can aspire to spread awareness and dispel the misconceptions or dismissive attitudes that have contributed to the tragic neglect of this disease,” she says.
“Unrest’ will be shown January 4, 2018 at 6 p.m. at Peter White Public Library.
For more information, go to unrest.film or meaction.net.
