I Remember Me (2001)

I REMEMBER ME is an informative and moving documentary about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Filmmaker Kim Snyder chronicles her own painful struggle with the condition, profiles other sufferers, and researches overlooked past outbreaks of what came to be known as "Yuppie Flu." Snyder interviews a wide range of medical professionals, who have wildly varying theories about the condition. With such confusion about what the condition actually is, and little evidence as to what causes it, Snyder shows how the medical establishment, particularly the CDC, has viewed the condition skeptically and investigated it halfheartedly, allowing people with CFS to become stigmatized as hypochondriacs. Through her interviews and profiles of sufferers--particularly one high school student who has been paralyzed by CFS--she shows just how debilitating and painful CFS can be. She also explores a little-known outbreak, which took place in Florida decades before the syndrome was recognized, and interviews survivors and doctors from those cases. Snyder also interviews director Blake Edwards (THE PINK PANTHER) and soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Michelle Akers, who describe how their happy lives and successful careers were nearly destroyed by CFS.