Success
Stories
Personal accounts of successful coping and improvement.
CFIDS Stories
25 Reasons Why I’ve
Improved
Bobbie
Brown's use of many coping techniques produced a dramatic improvement in her functional level.
Acceptance,
Discipline & Hope: A Story of Recovery from CFIDS
Dean Anderson's account of
his successful eight-year struggle.
Coming to Terms
with a Life I Didn’t Plan
Patti Schmidt explains how she worked through grief to learn how to
live with her illness.
Expanding My
Envelope: How I Balanced Work and CFIDS
Kristin Scherger describes how she expanded
her energy envelope by changing careers.
From
Defiance to Discipline: How I Found Freedom Through Acceptance and
Adaptation
How Bianca Veness learned to manage her CFS by listening
to her body.
From Hare
to Tortoise: How I Found Freedom (and Improved My Life) by Accepting My
Limits
How Bianca Veness gained control of her life by living within her limits.
How I Gained Hope and Control: Pacing for the Bedbound
Patient
Geraldine Blackman describes how her use of pacing
brought structure and purpose to her life.
Living Within My
Envelope: A How-To Story
JoWynn Johns describes how she
reduced her symptoms and brought stability to her life by finding and
honoring her body’s limits.
My Energy
Bank Account
How a simple pacing strategy allowed Vicki
Lockwood to reduce her symptoms and gain control of her life.
Physical and
Psychological Recovery from CFS
How Margaret Fergusson increased her functional
level from 15% to 70%.
Recovery from
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Lessons from one person's story.
Recovery from CFIDS: What Worked for Me,
Part 1
Recovery from CFIDS: What Worked for Me, Part 2
How Bruce Campbell used self-help to recover from
CFIDS. (Expanded version of article published in the CFIDS
Chronicle.)
Using
CBT: A Success Story
How James Thomas used Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy to treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
What Recovery Means to Me
For JoWynn Johns, recovery meant creating a different kind
of life than she had before becoming ill.
Fibromyalgia
Stories
Adapting to Fibromyalgia
By focusing on the many things she could do to feel better, Jana
Murrell-Maxfield made a successful adaptation to fibromyalgia.
From Doing to
Being: My Journey to Healing
Yvonne Bond's account of how her decision to stop working led
to a new and better life.
The Healing Power
of Gratitude
Joan Buchman’s account of the impact of gratitude on her life.
How I Created a Good
Life with Fibromyalgia
Joan Buchman's account of how lifestyle
changes and mental
adjustments led to a fulfilling life with chronic illness.
Learning to
Manage Fibromyalgia
Denise
Le Clair outlines how finally getting a diagnosis triggered changes
that produced a greatly improved quality of life.
Living with
Fibromyalgia: What Helps Me
FM patient Kathy Gamble describes
the many strategies she uses to create a good life with fibromyalgia.
The Power of
P.R.I.D.E.
Lynn Humphreys describes how she improved her life when
she started living with P.R.I.D.E.: pacing, rest, information,
delegating and enjoyment.
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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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