Mette – mother of a girl
“I think insight and help to find strategies made all the difference for my daughter”
Mother
“Our daughter was one of the sickest in the country, but now our worst nightmare is over”
Daughter (10), father and mother
“Our daughter was 10 years old, and every week mom had to carry her to her GP for help. Today she is 14 years old and completely healthy”
Mother of 10-year-old girl
The best thing I have done is to say, “no way will I accept that my daughter will just lie there and suffer indefinitely, without us being able to do anything”
Turid Spildo
“I made many mistakes and I did some things right. I had bad luck as well as good luck, but it turned out well in the end” – a mother´s story
Anette Veisten Lie
I was a mother with ME and two children sick with ME – There is hope!
Mother of a 12-year-old daughter
“Now our daughter will go out and experience happiness and sorrow – just like other teenagers. She has got her life back”
Father of daughter aged 12-20
“My daughter was ill for eight years, lying in the dark, being fed through a tube. Today she is well”
Ann Kristin Kjærnli
“At last, there was somebody who understood. This is why I was on the phone, crying because of the kindness of these strangers”
Vilde Thorsen
«From having to sit in a wheelchair, I can now be active again and go training»
Female
“I was 13 years, and had no energy at all, but now I live my life the way I want to”
Mother of girl
My daughter’s ME recovery story
Mother of a boy
“When school started after the summer holiday, it was as if he’d never been ill”
Lea
“If I had believed all the negative things I read on the net, I would not have recovered”
Benedicte Viggen Fintland
“Luckily I am stubborn, and so I decided to disprove the idea that you just have to live with this diagnosis”
Celina, Silje og Rune Fylkesnes
“Our daughter learnt how to shift her focus away from the illness, and to replace ‘sickness thoughts’ with ‘healthy thoughts’”
Mette Høvern
“I was once one of the most severely ill people in Norway: How I recovered from ME”
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”
Emil, Leif og Lucie Størmer
“Emil learnt to control his focus by himself, and then things improved very quickly”
Anonymous
My journey into ME
Hanne Namsvatn
“I was one of the most severe cases of ME, but recovered completely”
Tina Røe Skaar
“The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete”
Anonymous
“The doctors could neither explain why I was ill, nor help me. But I did get well.”
Espen Utaker (father)
«Our daughter felt that she was more in control over her own situation, that she could now play an active part in her own recovery»
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»
