Coping Strategies
Practical techniques for reducing symptoms and
improving quality of life.
Adjusting
to Serious Illness: Strategies for Patients and Their Families
Ten ways for families to cope with CFS and FM.
Advice to a New Patient
More Advice to a
New Patient
Advice to a New Patient: 2005
People in our program answer the question: what are the most important things to remember in coping with
CFS and fibromyalgia? (Asked three times.)
Counting Your Blessings: How Gratitude
Improves Your Health
New research shows that people who keep a gratitude
journal report fewer symptoms and feel better about their lives.
Everyone
is Different: The Role of Individual Circumstances in CFS and FM
Every person's experience of illness is unique.
Here's an example to show you how to identify the important factors in
your situation.
Experiments
with Exercise
How one patient understood CFS through reflecting on
his experiences with exercise.
Getting Through the Bad Days
Guest author Patti Schmidt’s strategies for
handling relapses.
Illness
and Housekeeping
Housekeeping can feel overwhelming if you have a serious illness. This
article describes one patient's system for replacing clutter with order.
In Praise of
Solitude
CFS
patient JoWynn Johns describes how she found blessings in
solitude.
Looking
for a Big Payoff on a Small Investment? Try Keeping a Health Log
A
few minutes a day of record keeping can produce big benefits.
Minimize Relapses
How to reduce the
frequency and severity of setbacks.
Minimizing
Flares with the Relapse & Special Event Worksheets
Understand and take control over setbacks using these two worksheets.
My
Life as a "CFS Scientist:" Using Records to Gain Control
How a simple health log paid big
dividends for one patient.
Optimism,
Hope & Control
Exploring the link between attitude and
health.
Personal Guidelines For
Managing Chronic Illness
Having your own rules
for managing illness can guide you forward.
Planning
Worksheets: A Tool for Pacing
How to use daily and weekly schedules to bring stability to your
life.
Preventing Relapses
Five
strategies to help prevent setbacks.
Rebuilding
Life in the Face of Loss
How one person moved through denial to acceptance and
finally to new meaning and a new life
Strengthening Intimacy: Six
Strategies That Help
Strategies for improving intimacy.
Ten
Keys to Successful Coping
Ideas for living well with CFS or fibromyalgia (a
series).
Ten
Tips for Travel
How to enjoy travel when you have a long-term
illness.
Use Multiple Coping
Strategies
How to develop an
individualized self-management plan.
Writing
Is Good Medicine
CFIDS/FM writer Lisa Lorden
Myers explains how writing can improve your health.
Permission
is granted to re-publish or re-post this material as long as the
use is non-commercial (e.g. support group newsletter), the article
is used in its entirety and the source is credited as CFIDS/Fibromyalgia
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