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Frankie Campling, Michael Sharpe
£12.99
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Second Edition
Frankie Campling and Michael Sharpe
216 pages
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5 black and white line drawings
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196x129mm
978-0-19-923316-8
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Paperback
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03 July 2008
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- Provides a compassionate guide to this often-misunderstood illness
- Details practical advice for the patient based on the latest scientific evidence
- Includes Key Points boxes at the start of each chapter to quickly summarise important concepts covered in text
- Case Histories and Patient Perspectives provide practical examples throughout
- Includes invaluable resource section with further contacts and support groups
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 of conflicting advice that has been published up to now has served only to confuse sufferers, and 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 scientific evidence. It is unique in being written by both a sufferer and
a physician, both of whom have had extensive experience of talking to, and helping, patients. Included in the book is a detailed guide to self-help, written from a patient's perspective, but evidence-based. The book also deals with a number of special issues, advising on how to choose therapies and therapists, and how to deal with CFS in children. The book additionally includes an overview of the history of the illness, looking at the nature and causes of CFS, and the opportunities for the future. The book will be invaluable for sufferers from CFS, their friends and families, and the numerous health professionals who come into contact with sufferers from this illness.Readership: Sufferers of chronic fatigue
syndrome (CFS) and those seeking to better understand the condition (friends and families). GPs see most CFS sufferers in the first instance. This is an ideal book for GPs to recommend to their patients.
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Frankie Campling, A person with CFS/ME, and Michael Sharpe, Professor of psychological medicine and symptom research, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Section 1 - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: its nature, diagnosis, and treatment
1: Our aims in this section
2: What should it be called and why?
3: What is chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)?
4: How is a diagnosis of CFS/ME made?
5: What other conditions is CFS/ME linked to?
6: What do we know about CFS/ME?
7: Making sense of what we know about the causes of CFS/ME
8: What is the best treatment?
9: Some myths about CFS/ME
10: Summary
Section 2 - The idea of helping yourself
11: Introduction to self-help
12: Balancing rest and activity
13: Relaxation and calm breathing
14: Appropriate exercise
15: Improving your sleep
16: Getting the best from your food
17: Coping with pain
18: Difficulties with memory and concentration
19: A gradual increase in activity
20: What gets in the way of being sensible?
21: Improving your mood
22: Managing anxiety, panic and depression
23: Managing your thinking
24: Dealing with problems
25: Better communication
26: Managing relationships and people
27: Getting the best from today
28: Managing employment
29: Thinking about the future
30: Summary of our self-help advice
Section 3 - Special Issues
31: Thinking about therapies and therapists, both medical and complementary/alternative
32: Cognitive behaviour therapy, graded excercise therapy, and adaptive pacing therapy
33: Children and young people with CFS/ME
Appendices
1: Medical glossary
2: Keeping a diary
3: Further information
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