The first book to offer an optimistic message for CFS sufferers, this essential and inspirational guidebook is designed to help patients empower themselves, using techniques for body awareness, inner dialogue, deep relaxation, guided imagery, and other devices, so that they may take responsiblity for their own healing and gain a more positive outlook on life.
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Living with a debilitating disease, especially one not fully accounted for, medically, is stressful in itself. But Collinge believes that taking the responsibility for one's own healing can go a long way in ameliorating the constellation of symptoms experienced by people stricken with Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS). A psychologist on the staff of the Cancer Support and Education Center in Menlo Park, Calif., Collinge has worked with cancer and AIDS patients and developed his mind/body program soon after the highly publicized outbreak of the syndrome at Incline Village, Nev., in the mid-1980s. He stresses that CFIDS remains a mystery, citing several theories (viruses, life habits, environment, stress, allergens, genetic predisposition) that attempt to explain why an immune system beset by CFIDS can go haywire and respond with strange symptoms, including fatigue not resolved by sleep. Nonetheless, he emphasizes that like other chronic conditions, successful treatment of CFIDS requires a multidisciplinary approach encompassing medical evaluation and intervention, psychotherapy and self-help. Although he acknowledges that some people with CFIDS may never be able to return to their former way of life, some of his strategies may prove instrumental for others. Especially helpful are a series of appendices listing current medical treatments and support organizations.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The most important book you could buy if you have CFIDS!,
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This review is from: Recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome (Paperback)
This book will give you HOPE! Yes, it was written seven years ago, but its message is timeless and VERY essential. It gives the general medical information you need, along with some names of supportive organizations. More importantly, through case studies, Mr. Collinge proves that recovery is indeed possible and probable. As someone who SUFFERS from CFIDS, I have read a lot of publications on the subject- I would recommend this book above anything else. It gives the hope, based on a solid foundation, that we all need.
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This review is from: Recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome (Paperback)
Recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome
Concise, well-written, and upbeat, this book offers what is often missing in counsel to people suffering from CFS and Fibromyalgia: hope. It concentrates on giving the reader non-drug therapies and self-help protocols. Drugs commonly used for CFS's myriad problems are listed in the back, but are not promoted - meaning that the overall message is that we can help ourselves, we don't have to depend on drugs, and we don't have to live with CFS for the rest of our lives. The author is also realistic in his counsel. A real problem for CFS sufferers is trying to recover what we have lost, trying to go back to "life before". Dr. Collinge's recovery ideas are based on a lifestyle that is different from the one that caused the illness. With that understanding and with a willingness to work at the methods presented, CFS people can make their lives better.
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