All Articles
All articles by date, most recent first:
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.
Personal Guidelines For Managing Chronic Illness
Having your own rules for managing illness can guide you forward and bring clarity in times of confusion.
Minimizing Relapses
How to reduce the frequency and severity of setbacks.
Key 10: Find New Meaning
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.
Key 9: Honor Your Emotions
How to address fear, anger, grief and depression.
Key 8: Seek Support & Understanding
Five strategies to help you increase support and stay connected.
Key 7: Manage Stress
Learn how to both reduce and prevent stress.
Key 6: Achieve Your Goals
When goals seem impossibly distant, translate them into a series of small, doable steps.
Key 3: Pace Yourself
Pacing provides a way to gain control of chronic illness rather than being at the mercy of symptoms.
Key 2: Find Your Limits
Living inside the Energy Envelope offers an alternative to the cycle of push and crash.
Key 1: Combine Acceptance and a Fighting Spirit
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.
Introduction: The Power of Self-Help
Research has shown self-help to be a powerful tool for managing chronic illness. (First in the series Ten Keys to Successful Coping: 2001.)
Treating Mental Pain: How to Lessen Psychological Suffering
A series of five articles that describe how to ease the mental suffering created by long-term illness.
Treating ME/CFS & Fibromyalgia
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.
Tratar SFC y Fibromialgia
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.)
Ten Keys to Successful Coping (2005)
The second version of a series on how to live well with long-term illness.
Ten Keys to Successful Coping
How to live well with long-term illness.
Self-Management Skills
A series of five articles.
Recasting Relationships and Building Support
A series of eight articles with practical strategies for improving relationships with family, friends and doctors.
Planning
A series of articles on how to use planning to manage ME/CFS and fibromyalgia.
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