Problem with addicts of any sort is they read this and think they have it. They read a thread somewhere else that describes some other condition, and voila', they identify with a bunch of symptoms and think they have that too.
Information is useful, but doing this in your head by reading and thinking without doing that all important consultation with an expert, face to face, is basically putting yourself into "enemy territory" (i.e., your own mind).
Chronic fatigue syndrome is something that might be diagnosed by process of elimination, not by pinpointing it. In other words, if they cannot find something else wrong and they have tested for all the obvious stuff, they might consider this diagnosis because they can't diagnose anything else. That being said, even if they did consider it, depression would not necessarily be ruled out but could be co-occurring. My understanding of CFS is that it contains physical symtoms beyond those found with depression, but they have to rule out other disorders. In addicts, liver problems probably would be looked at first.
