Jan Rothney
“I had to retrain the body that it is safe to recover, that I didn’t need protecting or to be put into survival mode”
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”
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!”
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”
Torill Sorkmo and May Elin Game interviewed by Sophie Helbig
Beating ME: Interview with Sophie Helbig on The Puzzle of Healing
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
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!
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»
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.”
Female
“I was 13 years, and had no energy at all, but now I live my life the way I want to”
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”
Mother of girl
My daughter’s ME recovery story
Torill Sorkmo
“It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I’ve been my own coach all the way”
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”
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’”
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”
Woman
“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”
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”
Rosi Lovdal
What is ME? A spiral down into unwellness
Monica Kristin Hansen
“If I could sleep for a hundred years…”
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”
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”
Arild Berg
“To me ME is no great mystery”
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?
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”
