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”
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?’”
Rachel Whitfield (UK)
“I had long Covid. I have fully recovered”
Esther (49)
“I realized there was nothing spectacularly wrong with my body. My fear of never getting better had kept me from getting better!”
Mother
“Our daughter was one of the sickest in the country, but now our worst nightmare is over”
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»
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”
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”
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 Grastveit Viggen
“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”
Marte Jürgensen
“Step by step I took my life back. My life’s big turnaround, I call it”
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”
Arild Berg
“To me ME is no great mystery”
Mari Hofsøy Pettersen
From ME to MMA
