Eleanor Kirby
“Each week I ticked off more milestones: driving, walking, running, cycling, seeing friends, and finally working full-time in a busy secondary school! I had my life back!”
Kate Hollins-Davies
“Instead of feeling guilty and tired out, I feel confident to live my life, because I now know how to manage my emotions better”
Svein Tore Røynestad
A farewell letter to chronic fatigue
Nina Caspersen
“At the CFS/ME centre they were shocked to see how ill I was. Today I could not be happier with my life”
Woman, psychiatric nurse
“I had to work incredibly hard to avoid reverting to the pattern of exhaustion I had been stuck in”
Mette – mother of a girl
“I think insight and help to find strategies made all the difference for my daughter”
Woman in her 20s
“I am no longer afraid of symptoms, or a few days of tiredness, because I know it will pass!”
Rachel Whitfield (UK)
“I had long Covid. I have fully recovered”
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”
Mother
“Our daughter was one of the sickest in the country, but now our worst nightmare is over”
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!”
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”
Jan Even Raastad
From a nursing patient to a mountain climber: “For four years I lay completely helpless and motionless in bed”
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”
Woman (29)
“To anyone struggling with ME, I want to say that you can get well!”
Live Landmark
“You can recover completely!”
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
Randi Ribe
«I had whiplash, neck pains and low energy after a car accident. Today I have energy enough to do what I want»
Alex Bermingham
“My whole world and understanding of things had been turned upside down, in the best way possible”
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”
Man & medical doctor
«I suffered from CFS/ME. Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time»
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”
Vilde Thorsen
«From having to sit in a wheelchair, I can now be active again and go training»
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.”
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”
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”
Eilen Sør-Reime
“Much of what made me ill, was probably the expectation that I would get ill”
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”
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”
Thomas Overvik (by Randi Størseth)
Documentary: An undeniable truth – a contribution to living free of ME/CFS
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”
Anne Mari Romsaas Fredriksen
“I had to move in with my mother to get care, but now I define myself as recovered”
Anonymous
My journey into ME
Bård Stranheim
Burned out. A journey in and out of exile from life.
Hanne Namsvatn
“I was one of the most severe cases of ME, but recovered completely”
Turid Spildo
“Body and head, yes, thank you, I`ll choose both.”
Tina Røe Skaar
“The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete”
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”
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”
Ann Kristin Grøntjernet
“It is awfully demanding when you are seriously ill, but it is well worth the effort!”
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»
Woman in her 30s
I want to recover – but how?
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”
