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NEW EDITION

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Second Edition

Frankie Campling and Michael Sharpe

Price: £12.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923316-8
Publication date: 3 July 2008
216 pages, 5 black and white line drawings, 196x129 mm
Series: The Facts
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Description

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.

Contents

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

Authors, editors, and contributors

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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