The positive side of ME (yes, there is one!)
I have had ME since 1999. For the first seven months, I was unable to work, and then well enough to go back to work full-time.
During that time, I was bed-bound, and depended on my friends and family to do basic things like washing and shopping; even cooking meals was a major thing. As the illness was so debilitating I decided that I needed to set goals each day, otherwise, I was wasting time, just lying in bed feeling terrible.