Coping with Lupus (Coping with chronic conditions: guides to living with chronic illnesses for you & your family) [Paperback]

Robert H. Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Series: Coping with chronic conditions: guides to living with chronic illnesses for you & your family | Publication Date: July 1, 1984

In this new book, Dr. Phillips offers sound, meaningful, compassionate advice to those individuals who must deal with lupus. Coping with Lupus effectively explains the strategies and techniques that can greatly improve the quality of life for lupus patients and their families.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Avery; 2nd edition (July 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895294753
• ISBN-13: 978-0895294753
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,559,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Lupus

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great book, January 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Coping with Lupus (Coping with chronic conditions: guides to living with chronic illnesses for you & your family) (Paperback)

I read this book years ago when I was first diagnosed with lupus and found it to be very informative and helpful. It is written in such a manner that it isn't dry or boring. It gives you all the information you need to know and also makes you laugh and gives you hope. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is newly diagnosed or knows someone with lupus. It's quick and easy reading.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not enough helpful hints for coping, September 15, 2000

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Shauna S. Roberts (Riverside, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coping with Lupus (Coping with chronic conditions: guides to living with chronic illnesses for you & your family) (Paperback)

The person with lupus must struggle with strong and conflicting emotions while trying to maintain as normal a life as possible despite pain, disability, and changes in personal relationships. This book attempts to offer ideas for dealing with these problems.

Unfortunately, this book sometimes glosses over the difficulties the person with lupus faces. There are some helpful hints in it; but often, the author spends far more space describing a problem than offering solutions for solving it. For example, here is the complete advice for people worried about no longer being able to work: "Talk to people. Speak to others with lupus who cannot work. Find out what they are doing to cope. Maybe you'll get some ideas that will help you conquer this fear."

When the author does provide hints for coping, he often doesn't go into much detail. For example, the section on using relaxation techniques to combat pain contains just four sentences. It mentions meditation, autogenic training, hypnosis, and deep breathing, but it does not even define them, let alone give instructions for any of them or tell you where to find out more information.

There are no easy answers for the obstacles people with lupus face each day; still, the reader would have been better served if the author had spent less time "feeling the reader's pain" and more time helping her solve it.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most down to earth book for the common person to understand, February 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Coping with Lupus (Coping with chronic conditions: guides to living with chronic illnesses for you & your family) (Paperback)

The compassion and understanding in which this was written truely made me feel like I was not alone nor crazy.