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For decades, people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome have struggled to convince doctors, employers, friends and even family members that they were not imagining their debilitating symptoms. Skeptics called the illness “yuppie flu” and “shirker syndrome.” Times Essentials: Reporter’s File Heidi Schumann for The New York Times Donna Flowers was once debilitated by chronic fatigue but has tamed her disease with exercise and treatment. […] “People with C.F.S. are as sick and as functionally impaired as someone with AIDS, with breast cancer, with chronic…