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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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ISBN-10: 0199233160

ISBN-13: 9780199233168

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Frankie Campling, Michael Sharpe

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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) remains one of the most controversial illnesses, both in terms of its causes, and the best ways to treat the illness. For years, sufferers have had to deal with scepticism from their families, employers, and even health care professionals. The vast amount ofconflicting advice that has been published up to now has served only to confuse sufferers (and the professionals) even more. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Facts presents a compassionate guide to this illness, providing sufferers and their families, with practical advice, based solely on scientificevidence . It is unique in being written by both a sufferer and a physician, both of whom have had extensive…    
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Book details

List price: $26.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

P. G. Walsh has translated six previous Latin editions for OWC: Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Petronius, Satyricon, Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and On Obligations, Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, and Pliny, Complete Letters.Frankie Campling, Sufferer of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Michael Sharpe, Consultant in Psychology, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Michael Sharpe was born in 1970 into a forces background and developed a fascination for flying and military history at an early age. He has worked on numerous publications and articles and is widely published in the fields of military and civil aviation, transport and military history. He is the author of Air Disasters and a volume of a ten-part history of warfare in the Second World War.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: its nature, diagnosis, and treatment
Our aims in this section
What shall we call it?
What is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)?
How a diagnosis of CFS/MS is made
Other associated conditions
Research into CFS/ME
Making sense of what we know about the causes of CFS/ME
Treatment
Some myths about CFS/ME
Summary
The idea of self-help
Introduction to self-help
Balancing rest and activity
Relaxation and calm breathing
Appropriate exercise
Improving your sleep
Getting the best from your food
Coping with pain
Difficulties with memory and concentration
A gradual increase in activity
What gets in the way of being sensible?
Improving your mood
managing anxiety, panic and depression
Managing your thinking
Dealing with problems
Better communications
Managing relationships and people
Getting the best from today
Managing employment
Thinking about the future
Summary of our self-help advice
Special Issues
Thinking about therapies and therapists, both medical and complementary/alternative
Cognitive behaviour therapy and graded exercise therapy
Children with CFS/MEAppendices
Medical glossary
Keeping a diary
The Oxford 1994 CDC criteria for CFS
Further information