I tricked my body into believing I would get well
This is my story about how I got ME/CFS and how I managed to recover from it.
For me it became vital to think that I was well, to say I was well
This is to you, you who stood by me when I was so very ill with ME. We have not spoken since. However, you, and many others, made such a difference in my life and I never really got to thank you.
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
It was December 2000, near the end of a two-week Christmas break that my illness began. It started off with typical flu-like symptoms – sneezing and runny nose, with the fever symptoms of feeling cold and aches and pains all over my body.
The doctors could neither explain why I was ill, nor help me. But I did get well
Many years have passed, I now have several children and work as a psychologist. If there is one thing I see more and more clearly, it is how much our emotions, thoughts and relationships affect our health.
I got my life back!
My body did not recover after infectious mononucleosis in 2006. At that time, I was only 16 years old. I got worse in 2018 and was on sick leave for long periods of time. In 2012, as a 22-year-old girl, I got the ME-diagnosis (serious degree)