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Having your own rules for managing illness can guide you forward and bring clarity in times of confusion.

How to reduce the frequency and severity of setbacks.

Chronic illness brings grief for the loss of the person we used to be. Use these seven strategies to bring new meaning to your life.

How to address fear, anger, grief and depression.

Five strategies to help you increase support and stay connected.

Learn how to both reduce and prevent stress.

When goals seem impossibly distant, translate them into a series of small, doable steps.

Pacing provides a way to gain control of chronic illness rather than being at the mercy of symptoms.

Living inside the Energy Envelope offers an alternative to the cycle of push and crash.

The first key is to adopt a combination of two attitudes: acceptance that life has changed with a conviction that it can be made better.

Research has shown self-help to be a powerful tool for managing chronic illness. (First in the series Ten Keys to Successful Coping: 2001.)

A series of five articles that describe how to ease the mental suffering created by long-term illness.

Treatment options for fatigue, pain, sleep problems, and brain fog, plus your doctor's role and yours, and an example of a symptom management plan.

Opciones de tratamiento para los cuatro síntomas más importantes: fatiga, dolor, dormir mal y problemas cognitivos. También principios generales del tratamiento. (Escrita por Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., creador del programa de autoayuda. Traducción al español por Cathy van Riel.)

The second version of a series on how to live well with long-term illness.

How to live well with long-term illness.

A series of five articles.

A series of eight articles with practical strategies for improving relationships with family, friends and doctors.

A series of articles on how to use planning to manage ME/CFS and fibromyalgia.

A series of articles with practical strategies for controlling symptoms and expanding the energy envelope.