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How to Create a Symptom Management Plan
An example of how to develop a symptom management plan for ME/CFS or fibromyalgia.
Illness and Housekeeping
Housekeeping can feel overwhelming with ME/CFS or FM. Here's how one person transformed clutter into order.
The 1% Solution
The secret to improving with CFS and FM? Think small.
Treating CFS & Fibromyalgia: How Family and Friends Can Help
Practical ways to support patients in their efforts to feel better.
Illness & Sex: Six Strategies for Improving Intimacy
Six ways to improve sex and promote closeness.
Advice to a New Patient
What are the most important things to remember in coping with chronic illness? Read some thoughts from people in our program.
Pacing and Assertiveness
How one person learned to avoid relapses by using assertiveness.
Finding Your Energy Envelope, Part 1
Describes a system for understanding your limits and offers two techniques for expanding them. (First of two articles.)
Realistic Hope
We find that those who get better often combine two apparently conflicting ideas: acceptance and the conviction that improvement is possible.
Non-Drug Treatments for Pain: Nine Strategies
While medications are often used for pain, alternative approaches can be helpful as well.
Managing Your Medications
Five common problems and what to do about them.
Overlapping and Related Conditions
A description of eight medical problems that often occur together with ME/CFS and FM.
Surprising Symptoms
How to deal with nine confusing aspects of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia.
Sensory Overload: Sources and Strategies
Too much sensory information? Read about causes, treatments and prevention.
How Your Doctor Can Help If You Have CFS/ME
Answers from CFS specialist Dr. Charles Lapp.
Getting Through the Bad Days
Guest author Patti Schmidt's strategies for handling relapses.
Changing Self-Talk: A Cognitive Therapy Primer
How to reduce mental suffering by changing your inner dialogue.
Being Thankful: Developing a Habit of Gratitude
Benefits of gratitude, a personal story and how to get started.
Disarming Psychological Landmines
Strategies for taming the effects of media and navigating difficult relationships.
Steps to Better Health: Improvement Through Goal Setting and Logging
Elena Rosen improved from 25% to 80% by taking a series of small steps.
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