Product Description
Recovery from CFS - 50 Personal Stories is a simple collection of recovery stories from people who have recovered from CFS/ME. Men, women and children from six different countries who were all diagnosed with CFS/ME and who were ill for between 2 and 25 years, have written their own individual and very different accounts of their return to good health and a normal life. At the end of each account they have offered advice, suggested helpful books and websites, and many have even given contact details for readers needing support.The foreword is written by Dr Jacob Teitelbaum, Medical Director of the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers, Inc. USA. Dr Teitelbaum had CFS himself as a medical student and is one of the world's foremost experts in CFS. Two of the stories are written by doctors, including that of Dr Clare Fleming who edited two reports from the UK National Task Force and who contributed to the Action for ME rehabilitation courses. There is also the miraculous story of canoeist Anna Hemmings who returned to win the world championship Gold medal nine months after recovering from CFS. 20% of the book proceeds go to CFS/ME research

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)

Hope and Letting Oprah Know by Diana Daniele (Los Angeles, CA)

5 Stars
March 22, 2009
I wrote one of the success stories in this book, but receive no profits from its sale, nor was I paid to write my chapter. Recovery From CFS is an amazing collection of stories that offers readers Hope with a capital H. I highly recommend the book for anyone who suffers from CFS/ME (now known as CFIDS in the US) and all those who love him/her. There is no magic bullet cure to overcome CFIDS, and everyone who has had it knows what it is to refer to those "Dark Days, when there seemed to be no hope at all. This book includes a multitude of individual strategies to heal and recover -- and truly become "better than new", because of the hardwon lessons learned along the way. It would be so wonderful if more people knew about this life-changing book. Anybody know Oprah?? Five-star, all the way...

A Key to My Recovery by Michael (Arlington, VA, USA)

5 Stars
March 21, 2009
I highly recommend this book for anyone suffering with CFS/ME or has a loved who is. I related with nearly all the stories in the book -even felt some could just as well been written by me. It is filled with all kinds of practical help but, more importantly, it is filled with hope. The causes of this illness and the path to recovery can be quite varied. The reader will, however, find many common threads among the 50 stories in this book. On the really difficult days when hope and energy would ebb and frustration and despair flow, I could curl up in my bed, open this book and feel the rejuvenating power of relating to others who had successfully navigated out of the clutches of what can sometimes seem to be an implacable and elusive affliction. I have made some very tangible progress towards my health in the last 6 months and consider reading this book to be a key turning point. I have complete confidence that I will soon be able to contribute my own story to what I hope will be another addition to this wonderful book.

excellent resource for anyone who has CFS by David Jameson (Calgary, AB)

5 Stars
March 04, 2009
My recovery story appears in this book, but I am not the author and I don't make any money from it. If you buy one book about CFS, make sure you buy this one, as it will be the most useful book in helping you to recover. Too many patients believe that it is impossible to recover from CFS, and that all to often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This book shows that people can and do recover, and if you read their stories it will give you not only hope but also advice as to what worked for different people to help them in their recovery. The stories are written by the recovered patients in their own words, presumably with some minor editing, and they are well written and easy to read.

At last proof that people do recover from CFS/ME by Georgina A. Oldfield (UK)

5 Stars
March 04, 2009
Alexandra Barton, who has herself recovered from ME, realised just how important it is for people living with ME to realise that there is a way out. Too often people with ME are told there is no cure, so to be able to read not just 1 recovery story, but 50, and all in each individual's own words, provides hope and inspiration to those who desperately need it. Well done Alexandra for providing an invaluable book, which not only contains the recovery stories themselves, but also includes a number of resources for ME sufferers to choose from to help them in their own recovery from ME.

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