Living with a Long-term Illness: The Facts (The Facts Series) [Paperback]

Frankie Campling (Author), Michael Sharpe (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198528825 | ISBN-13: 978-0198528821 | Publication Date: March 16, 2006 | Edition: 1

All long-term illnesses, whatever their diagnosis, have much in common. The difficulties and challenges that come with illness, and the strategies to overcome them, are shared by most patients. Managing an illness effectively and tackling the difficulties it causes can greatly improve how you feel and your quality of life. This book identifies the challenges posed by illness and suggests a wide variety of ways in which you might meet them. Key to this is the idea of becoming expert in managing your own illness and learning how best to deal with it. The authors accept that you know more than them about how you experience it, so that rather than telling you what to do, they offer a tool box from which you may pick the strategies that best suit you. The two authors, one a person with a long-term illness and one a doctor, combine their expertise and experience to offer a practical and comprehensive guide along your own unique journey. If you have a long-term illness, or if you care for someone who does, then this is a book for you.

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"This is a well-written and comprehensive self-help guide for anyone living with a long-term illness written by a former sufferer of chronic fatigue syndrome (FC) and a professor of psychological medicine and symptom research (MS)...it is packed with useful, practical, sensible information that must be of benefit to anyone with a long-term illness."--Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia

About the Author

Frankie Campling suffers from a long-term illness. Michael Sharpe is a Professor of Psychological Medicine and Symptoms Research, School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (March 16, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198528825
• ISBN-13: 978-0198528821
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,747,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as it could be considering Michael Sharpe is a co-author, December 1, 2009

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This review is from: Living with a Long-term Illness: The Facts (The Facts Series) (Paperback)

Sharpe is well known as one of the junk scientists trying to psychopathologize ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis; aka CFIDS/CFS). He writes in a psychiatry text for physicians of ME (CFS) as neurasthenia. He characterizes it as basically a somatoform disorder with Abnormal Illness Beliefs around inappropriate exercise avoidance. Patently false. There have been over 4,000 articles is peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME. Exercise can greatly increase morbidity in ME.
He does not come right out in this book with these demeaning and dangerous remarks he reserves for other physicians in his Psychiatry book. But he does insist that the doctor is the only one who can identify disease and repeats several times that if you have "medically unexplained" illness (he thinks ME is one) that you should really reexamine your avoidance and fear of activity because this is AIB increasing morbidity.