Chronic Emo Syndrome

Following a link from Bad Science, about an osteopath who can cure ME by 'draining the lymphs from the spinal column', I found this article:

Manchester Evening News

FOR years ME, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome, has baffled medical professionals. In the Eighties it was known as 'yuppie flu', its symptoms often dismissed as being all in the mind.
Nicole Roberts-Morris is one of hundreds of thousands who know differently. The mum-of-three from Bollington watched the condition transform her daughter, Imogen from a happy go-lucky 11-year-old into a pale shadow of her former self and, sometime later, the same thing happen to her younger daughter, Lena.

Yes. They'd both become Goths.

Louis Pasteur

GEORGE: It'll be different this time.

SUSAN: I need someone a little more stable.

GEORGE: I'm not stable? I'm like a rock. I take these glasses off, you can't tell the difference between me and a rock. I put these glasses on a rock. You know what jumps into most people's minds? Costanza!

SUSAN: People don't change.

GEORGE: I change I change. Two weeks ago I tried a soft boiled egg. Never liked it before. Now I'm dunkin a piece of toast in there and I'm loving it.

SUSAN: I'm not a soft boiled egg.

GEORGE: And I am not a piece of toast.

SUSAN: I just don't think we have anything in common.

GEORGE: That's okay. That's good. You think Louie Pasteur and his wife had anything in common? He was in the fields all day with the cows, you know with the milk, examining the milk, delving into milk, consummed with milk. Pasteurization, Homogenization, She was in the kitchen killing cockroaches with a boot on each hand.

SUSAN: Why were there so many cockroaches?

GEORGE: Because. There was a lot of cake lying around the house. Just sitting there going with all the excess milk from all the experiments [grins]

SUSAN: And they got along?

GEORGE: Yes! Yes. You know. She didn't know about Pasteurization. He didn't know anout Fumigation. But they made it work!