Double D Productions

Do you see ME? (working title)

A feature-length documentary about ME sufferers and their struggle to get the illness recognised by the medical profession.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis has no standard diagnosis or cure, and yet there are 20 million sufferers in the world, with 30,000 of them being children in the UK alone. It receives little research funding from government agencies in the UK, USA, Europe and worldwide.For over 25 years the research that has taken place has caused a renaming of the disease to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which instead of bringing clarity, has brought confusion breaking CFS into multiple diseases, of which none of them were physical.

This misrepresentation has existed on both sides of the Atlantic to this day.In 2007 in the US the Center for Disease Control formed an investigative panel which concluded CFS could be seen as a public health problem, while currently not seen as a priority.Thousands have signed petitions to ask the CDC to change their definitions, which they continue to ignore.When examining private research findings what is becoming more apparent is that CFS is actually a transmissible disease, which could affect thousands, if not millions more.

This film is intended to be a documentary portraying the facts and history through re enactment and interviews, on what is and has been happening on the treatment of ME/CFS, to a wide audience, which we view as actually essential to world health