The second programme takes a closer look at the scientific debate behind the frustrating, uncertain world of ME and its treatments, exploring the work of David Mickel, a Scottish doctor who believes he has found the 'cure' for ME through a talking therapy which addresses an imbalance in the emotional centre of the brain. He has no scientific proof, but claims a positive success rate.

BBC ALBA follows two patients, Allison MacColl from Ness in Lewis and Kim Ayres from Castle Douglas in Dumfriesshire, as they undergo Mickel’s controversial therapy, and we hear another, and very different perspective, on the illness from neurologist, Prof. Peter Behan, who has carried out groundbreaking studies on ME at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. Read more here