Fatigue

Tracey Taylor (filmday(AT)wr.com.au)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:59:32 -0800

Hi everybody!
I filmed my neurologist last week, and at the same time got to ask him some
questions that have been bugging me. One was about fatigue. I told him how
good it was to hear that other people with TM suffer from tiredness and
fatigue, as I thought it was just me not being able to cope as I used to.
He said that there was no physical reason why the ongoing symtpoms of TM
should include fatigue. He said that whenever a doctor hears that a patient
is suffering from fatigue, they immediately think that they are depressed.
I said I wasn't depressed, but then I thought that maybe my sad feelings
about my condition may manifest themselves into a feeling of tiredness and
not wanting to do anything but lie on the couch and ignore the world for a
while. Just a thought.

Anyway, as far as the doco goes, I've been having many meetings with
broadcasters and other doco film makers. What we have decided is that for
me to make a film on TM which will be broadcastable and watchable, I really
need to feature three main stories. This means that I have to find three
people with TM that have amazing stories to tell. This is very hard for me
to research of course without the money to travel around the world and meet
you all. I want to find one in Australia, one in US and one in the U.K.
Speaking to some of you, I think there are quite a few candidates. I am
still waiting on a couple of more tapes to arrive. I think the story in
Australia will be about little Nicholas who got TM when he was just 14
months old. If any of you know someone with TM who leads an amazing life (I
do realise that just coping with this thing on a day to day basis is
amazing enought, although not to the broadcasters), then please let me
know. I was thinking of perhaps featuring Jim Lubin (although I haven't
asked him yet), but please give me any advice you have. Wish me luck, as
this is going to be a long, hard slog, but at the end of it we will
hopefully have a film which lets people know about TM and provides them
with a look at some really great people.

Tracey