Gary McKean (New Zealand)
Long covid recovery: “It was a great revelation and relief to discover that I had the power to heal myself.”
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”
Amy Engkjer
“After one year and 10 days I realized that I was done with COVID! The mind-body connection was the final piece in my healing”
Paul Garner
“I have learnt with this condition people get better from hope, kindness and love, not fear and catastrophe”
Woman, psychiatric nurse
“I had to work incredibly hard to avoid reverting to the pattern of exhaustion I had been stuck in”
Minja
“My brain maintained my condition by pondering questions such as: ‘How am I doing today, which symptoms are the hardest, and consequently; what will I be doing today?’”
Esther (49)
“I realized there was nothing spectacularly wrong with my body. My fear of never getting better had kept me from getting better!”
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”
Mother
“Our daughter was one of the sickest in the country, but now our worst nightmare is over”
Max
Frozen: Why couldn’t I move my arm?
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
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»
Man & medical doctor
«I suffered from CFS/ME. Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time»
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”
Michael Lassen
«My life was a painful hell, but now this back that was unable to stand upright can deadlift 130 kgs»
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”
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!'”
Torill Sorkmo
“It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I’ve been my own coach all the way”
Eilen Sør-Reime
“Much of what made me ill, was probably the expectation that I would get ill”
Benedicte Viggen Fintland
“Luckily I am stubborn, and so I decided to disprove the idea that you just have to live with this diagnosis”
Oda
«I created a situation where the evidence for what I was worried about, was created by the worries themselves»
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”
Aina Elisabeth Tandberg-Bråthen
“I tricked my body into believing I would get well”
Kristin
“When I read my story today about my illness period, I can hardly believe how bad it was”
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”
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
