{"id":51629,"date":"2026-08-05T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51629"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:48:04","slug":"best-of-2026so-far-my-maddening-battle-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-on-my-worst-days-it-feels-almost-demonic-podcast-me-chronic-fatigue-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=51629","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2026\u2026so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: \u2018On my worst days, it feels almost demonic\u2019 \u2013 podcast | ME \/ Chronic fatigue syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2026, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we\u2019ve chosen it.<\/p>\n<p>This week, from February: I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my brain be the answer?<\/p>\n<p>By Hermione Hoby. Read by Alby Baldwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Wednesday and Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2026, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we\u2019ve chosen it. This week, from February: I suffered with my mystery illness for decades before gaining a diagnosis. Could retraining my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[25129,820,4548,546,23308,8026,3919,7675,515,8027,9662],"class_list":{"0":"post-51629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-2026so","9":"tag-battle","10":"tag-chronic","11":"tag-days","12":"tag-demonic","13":"tag-fatigue","14":"tag-feels","15":"tag-maddening","16":"tag-podcast","17":"tag-syndrome","18":"tag-worst"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}