Daniel Hindsley (UK)
“If you are also suffering with chronic pain hang in there, hopefully you can see from my story that you can make a full recovery”
Woman (62)
“I was an ME patient for 23 years. I was in care. Today I can do anything I want, and I enjoy living my life”
Woman
“It is incredible to see how the mind and body is connected”
Lotte Lockert Johansen
“Eight years of sickness is history. My son once again has a mother, my husband has a wife, and I’ve got a life!”
Max
Frozen: Why couldn’t I move my arm?
Jan Even Raastad
From a nursing patient to a mountain climber: “For four years I lay completely helpless and motionless in bed”
Torill Sorkmo and May Elin Game interviewed by Sophie Helbig
Beating ME: Interview with Sophie Helbig on The Puzzle of Healing
Woman (29)
“To anyone struggling with ME, I want to say that you can get well!”
Live Landmark
“You can recover completely!”
Randi Ribe
«I had whiplash, neck pains and low energy after a car accident. Today I have energy enough to do what I want»
Woman in her 30s
«I was always running to the toilet and always tired. It is pretty cool to see how you can improve your life this way»
Alex Bermingham
“My whole world and understanding of things had been turned upside down, in the best way possible”
Marte Jürgensen
“As a medical doctor I feared this diagnosis; it gave me scant hope of recovery. I consider my way back to good health the biggest turnaround in my life”
Anette Veisten Lie
I was a mother with ME and two children sick with ME – There is hope!
Man & medical doctor
«I suffered from CFS/ME. Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time»
Michael Lassen
«My life was a painful hell, but now this back that was unable to stand upright can deadlift 130 kgs»
Vilde Thorsen
«From having to sit in a wheelchair, I can now be active again and go training»
May Elin Game
“I now had the knowledge to understand, the will to accept, and the tools to adjust”
Simon Pimenta
“Never, never give up hope that you can make progress towards your goal of recovery”
Polina Chernomordik
“No magic was involved, no pills or medical stuff. Just my inner power and the power of my brain.”
Dan Neuffer
“My message to all ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and POTS sufferers is ‘don’t lose hope!'”
Stine Toppe Andersen
“I had a shower stool and a wheelchair, but today I am proud and extremely happy to say that I have recovered”
Torill Sorkmo
“It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I’ve been my own coach all the way”
Woman in her 30s
“The symptoms often made me feel stressed and worried, as I saw them as a sign that something was wrong with my body”
Lea
“If I had believed all the negative things I read on the net, I would not have recovered”
Benedicte Grastveit Viggen
“Luckily I am stubborn, and so I decided to disprove the idea that you just have to live with this diagnosis”
Mette Høvern
“I was once one of the most severely ill people in Norway: How I recovered from ME”
Thomas Overvik (by Randi Størseth)
Documentary: An undeniable truth – a contribution to living free of ME/CFS
Oda
«I created a situation where the evidence for what I was worried about, was created by the worries themselves»
Woman (23)
“It is hard to put aside principles you have set up because you so desperately want to be believed”
Lise Bauck
“If I had let my symptoms stop me, I would never have been able to continue”
Anne Mari Romsaas Fredriksen
“I had to move in with my mother to get care, but now I define myself as recovered”
Marte Jürgensen
“Step by step I took my life back. My life’s big turnaround, I call it”
Anonymous
My journey into ME
Aina Elisabeth Tandberg-Bråthen
“I tricked my body into believing I would get well”
Bård Stranheim
Burned out. A journey in and out of exile from life.
Rosi Lovdal
What is ME? A spiral down into unwellness
Monica Kristin Hansen
“If I could sleep for a hundred years…”
Kristin
“When I read my story today about my illness period, I can hardly believe how bad it was”
Kirsti Dahl Johansen
“For me it became vital to think that I was well, to say I was well”
David Jameson
“The key was realising that my illness and relapses had all happened during times when I didn’t have any work to do, usually after a period of stress”
Bjørne Bjørnson Skarbøe
“For me it was about realising that the mind and body is connected, and learn that I could influence my health through cognitive tools.”
Camilla Wiede Hellerud
“So, here I am, never better!”
Thomas Overvik
“I was transferred to a nursing home, laid out in darkness, not leaving bed for 15 months. But then my world view changed radically”
Anonymous
“The doctors could neither explain why I was ill, nor help me. But I did get well.”
Arild Berg
“To me ME is no great mystery”
Mari Hofsøy Pettersen
From ME to MMA
Woman (29)
“I got my life back!”
Aftur Spildo
«This illness will last for a long time. And why is that? Because I am already prepared to die – inside»
Nina og Svein Erik Høst
“At that moment it was absolutely essential that I was there”
