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How experimentation and record keeping were keys to dramatic improvement.

How to control symptoms by staying within your anaerobic threshold.

Pre-emptive rest is a simple technique that can help reduce symptoms and make life more stable. (From the series "Ten Keys to Successful Coping: 2001.")

Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)

What are the most important things to remember in coping with chronic illness? Read some answers from fellow patients in this article.

We find that those who get better often combine two apparently conflicting ideas: acceptance and the conviction that improvement is possible.

While medications are often used for pain, alternative approaches can be helpful as well.

Guest author Lisa Lorden Myers' thoughts on how to tailor New Year's resolutions for CFS and FM.

How to deal with nine confusing aspects of CFS and FM.

How to keep hope alive, even when you have an illness with no cure.

How one person reduced stress.

How one person found love while bed/couch bound.

How one person developed an array of strategies to help her reduce stress.

Our suggestions of five key areas.

Combining medical treatments and self-management

How your style of communication affects symptoms.

Using devices to get more done and make life easier.

Using planning to reduce the frequency and severity of setbacks.

Three strategies for enjoying travel and other special events while avoiding a relapse.

Everyone has times when they feel unhappy or sad. We can recognize that these feelings are likely to occur and plan how to respond.