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How I Explain Chronic Fatigue to Those Who Don’t Have It

By Eileen Davidson — 2020

Fatigue isn’t just being tired. It robs us of our ability to think clearly and of our motivation. Your body feels like it’s powering off like a dying battery.

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I’m a “Spoonie.” Here’s What I Wish More People Knew About Chronic Illness

Understand life with chronic illness in a way that’s never been explained before, using Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory.”

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Kirsten Schultz
2019
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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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Coping with Anger in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Do you ever get downright angry with your body? Do symptoms of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or other chronic illnesses make you want to yell at yourself?

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Adrienne Dellwo
2019
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Dealing with Stress in Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Most people with these illnesses agree that stress makes symptoms worse, sometimes even triggering debilitating flares.

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Adrienne Dellwo
2019
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Tips for Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a condition that can be hard to cope with. But you can adopt some strategies to make it easier.

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Arefa Cassoobhoy
2020
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What It’s Like to Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a Misunderstood Illness that Leaves People in Wheelchairs and Derails Entire Careers

After months of dealing with constant, extreme exhaustion that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I slept, in 2015, a doctor told me I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).

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Alison Millington
2020
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Majority of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fail to Receive Proper Care in ED

Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chronic fatigue syndrome may receive inappropriate care due to a widespread misunderstanding of this condition among health care workers

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James N. Baraniuk
2019
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‘It Was Like Being Buried Alive’: Battle to Recover from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

In an extract from her book Cure, Jo Marchant tells the story of Samantha Miller, one sufferer of the controversial condition.

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Jo Marchant
2016
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Treatment of Chronic Exhaustion and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Cognitive behavioral therapy and an exercise program appear to be the best treatments to improve function and symptoms of fatigue in patients with CFS.

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Don L. Goldenberg
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Solving the Mystery of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A collaborative JAX research center is diving deep into the biology of ME/CFS patients to find a root cause, which may lie in their own immune systems. If successful, the work will provide patients with clear diagnoses and effective therapies.

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Mark Wanner
2019
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