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Coping with Chronic Fatigue (Overcoming Common Problems) | 
 enlarge | Author: Trudie Chalder
Publisher: Sheldon Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 118783
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 80
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0859696855
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780859696852
ASIN: 0859696855
Publication Date: February 23, 1995
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 Cerebral Hypoxia and spasticity September 15, 2007
Teilhard de Chardin (United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I followed all the advice in this book. I was really positive. In truth I completely ignored my illness and went climbing in the Tien Shan, the Alps and locally in Cumbria. After each exertion I suffered an increase in spasticity and other severe neurological symptoms. I am now told that the initial viral infection has caused permanent damage to my autonomic nervous system. When I was first ill I was told it was "all in the mind", the approach advocated by Ms. Chalder. Now I have had surgery in the form of a sacral nerve stimulator. I am also waiting to see a neurologist as my consultant feels my happy go lucky approach to exercise coupled with my postural orthostatic tachycardia is causing hypoxia in my brain and this explains my problems with spasticity.
This may well be the most dangerous book on ME/CFS ever written. Charles Poser, the notable Harvard Neurologist defines ME as a vasculomyelinopathy. Chalder completely trivialises a potentially serious disease that if treated in the manner Chalder suggests can cause permanent damage to the brain. Read Byron Hyde's definition of ME, it will guide your physicians in identifying pathology and ultimately help you get appropriate treatment. Otherwise read the book and be ill and happy rather than happy and well.
Simplistic and harmful November 6, 2006
H. L. Morgan (UK)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
What would mr.wessley recommend for an ME sufferer who doesnt just feel a bit tired but who has to take morphine for the constant pain??
Positive thinking doesnt cure this illness and grouping it in the same category as chronic fatigue is insulting and well as harmful.Havent people suffered enough that this sort of rubbish is still being put out there.How many more have to die of so called CFS and have written on their death certificates that their cause of death was caused by CFS and directly linked to inflammation of the spinal cord?
Many people are dumped in the CFS category without proper diagnosis and do recover but they do not have ME.
Wessley is ignoring medical evidence that proves true ME is an organic illness and causing much harm.
 Help is only a short book away July 7, 2005
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have read the other reviews on this book and I disagree with those who thought it focused on depression rather than CFS.I have had this book for some time, but it was seeing my Occupational Therapist linked to the specialist clinic I go to, that made me realise that everything I was being told was already in front of me in this book. If you read this with an open mind and follow what is being said, you will see that it does make sense. Doing too little can be as harmful as doing too much. The balance between these is hard to find and substain, but find it you will if you follow this book carefully. What you do have to remember when reading the begining of this book is that Fatigue can be caused by many different things, and each illness can be just as destressing as the other, so this isn't just a book for CFS sufferers but for anyone who suffers from Chronic Fatigue.
Save your pennies! May 28, 2004
31 out of 38 found this review helpful
The preface of this short book is written by Simon Wessley. The book refers to chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome and ME as all being the same. It assumes that deconditioning through lack of activity and symptoms caused by negative thoughts, (depression) are the basis of continued ill health. If you think that doing abit more and changing the way you think will make you better then this book might help. If you have ME or CFS, a serious and very disabling neurological condition, you might find this book somewhat insulting. It ignores the plethora of evidence showing that ME/CFS is a physical illness. Maybe try: Recovering from ME by Collinge or From Fatigued to Fantastic or finding a good Dr.
Misleading March 29, 2004
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
I was given this book when first diagnosed with M.E. and followed its advice - my symptoms worsened and I became even more exhausted - inspite of a positive attitude. This book seems to be focused on fatigue caused by depression, which is not the same as M.E. I wish I had spent my money, time and effort reading one of the insightful, positive books on the subject.
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