Key legal question
Whether chronic fatigue syndrome qualifies as an invalidating health condition under the somatoform-disorder case law
Extracted holding
CFS is to be assessed by analogy with the case law on somatoform pain disorders and invalidates only exceptionally.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that CFS and neurasthenia belong to the same medically unclear syndromal cluster as somatoform disorders; therefore the criteria developed for somatoform pain disorders apply by analogy.