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5 characteristics shared by people who recover from CFS/ME

In my experience people who recover from CFS/ME share certain characteristics. All these characteristics can be cultivated. (Personally, self-discipline was the hardest lesson for me to learn and change was what I was most scared of). Read the rest of the article »


One way To deal with guilt

Guilt is a useful emotion to have. It tells us when we have stepped outside our personal moral boundaries. To feel good again we have to act in a way which takes us back within our moral boundaries. So guilt can be a useful guide-line by which to live our lives. Read the rest of the article »


The Daily Mail Health book of the week: Chronic fatigue

By Suzi Walker - June 1st 2009

Former model Suzi Walker, 37, has suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME for ten years. She reviews Recovery From CFS - 50 Personal Stories by Alexandra Barton, £12.50, available from Amazon or call 0117 924 1610.

"My symptoms of CFS first emerged after I nearly died giving birth to my daughter Sophie a decade ago; it was as if my body never recovered." Read the rest of the article »


Redland ME sufferer compiles book to help others

Bristol Evening Post, May 11, 2009


Alex BartonAs she sits chatting animatedly at her kitchen table, Alex Barton looks the picture of health. Yet just a few years ago, she was so ill that even walking across the kitchen took such an effort that it would reduce her to tears.


"I remember I couldn't walk the length of this kitchen ... because it was so exhausting," says Alex, as she recalls the years when she suffered from myalgic encephalomyelitis, the chronic fatigue condition better known as ME.  Read the rest of the article »


One Way To Deal With Negative Thoughts

by Alex Barton

We all know that our emotions affect our physical health and vice versa. We know that stress and depression are associated with poor immune function and disease and that happiness is associated with a strong immune system and longer life. This is because our emotions create certain hormonal states in our body.  Read more >>>
 

Nutrition and CFS/ME - Frequently Asked Questions

by Alex Barton

Anyone who has anything to do with CFS/ME agrees that a good diet contributes to recovery. However, many of us are understandably confused about what we should and shouldn’t be eating given the many different opinions we are bombarded with. My view is simply that if you are in doubt common sense should prevail.  Read more >>>

Why You Should Set Goals When You Have ME

by Alex Barton

As human beings we are naturally goal-driven. Our brain needs to have goals in order that we know how to behave. For example, we wouldn’t get up in the morning and get the bus, if our goal wasn’t to get to work. We wouldn’t eat if our goal wasn’t to relieve our hunger, we wouldn’t clean our shoes if our goal wasn’t to get them clean. There is nothing that you do which isn’t goal-driven. We need goals in order to function as a human being.  Read more >>>
 

The Elephant and ME: A story of what it is like living with chronic fatigue syndrome

by Alex Barton

Imagine feeling dreadful with the flu – really off work dreadful, having to be in bed dreadful. You feel horrible. Your muscles ache and are all weak and wobbly. You know the feeling, it’s like walking on two sticks of jelly when you’ve just completed a marathon. You feel completely drained – not just tired and exhausted, but utterly drained. Read more >>>  

An Old Chinese Taoist Story


A very old Chinese Taoist story describes a farmer in a poor country village. His neighbors considered him very well-to-do. One year the weather was very good and his crops grew strong and all his neighbours told him how lucky he was to have such a fine crop and he replied “maybe”. Read more >>>

 

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