| Yes. Amazing, isn't it? This is a statement that | | | | whole avenue of possible recovery is closed |
| was made by the Centre for Disease Control | | | | without question. |
| (CDC) in the States a short while ago. And the | | | | However, the third awareness we need to raise is |
| even more shocking fact? Conventional medicine | | | | that to get well from this condition, you need to |
| cannot offer any consistent hope for recovery. In | | | | work with every aspect of optimum health in a |
| fact, many doctors having excluded all other | | | | variety of different ways according to the needs |
| possibilities, only reluctantly then diagnose CFS. | | | | of the individual. There can be no one size fits all |
| And the reluctance? Because they often don't | | | | in the treatment of ME/CFS. |
| believe in it and don't know how to treat it. | | | | That's why it's essential that, even if you never |
| However, by that time sometimes months if not | | | | meet a client, or a colleague or a friend with ME |
| years can have passed. And the best time to | | | | CFS that you get yourself educated about its |
| treat CFS? As soon as the first symptoms set in. | | | | impact on every aspect of life: work, family, and |
| How can we change this public neglect? | | | | social. Because without any public safety net that |
| Firstly, we need to identify it quicker. We need to | | | | can capture and treat this condition, you're going |
| identify it before the personality has become | | | | to meet it more and more in all walks of life. |
| shaped by it and before, what we call in my | | | | I've worked with dozens of people with CFS, |
| business, secondary gain, has set in. Secondly, we | | | | given public lectures, and treated patients that the |
| need to be aware of the Mind-Body link in this | | | | doctors at their wits end have referred, trained |
| condition. Many affected by CFS resist | | | | 60+ therapists to be able to work the same way, |
| categorically and emphatically the notion that the | | | | and set up an unusual support group: no moaning |
| way they're thinking might contribute to, if not | | | | about symptoms in our group. Because we know |
| cause, their symptoms. And consequently one | | | | that what you think about you create! |