I here choose to write my story wishing that others may benefit from it, that it may provide hope of recovery for them. I am presently 54 years old, married and I have four adult children. I work as a therapist for students.
It was 2008. I was 31 years old and heading full speed out into the world. I had got a job at the United Nations (UN), and prior to that I had gone at top speed most of the time. I had been in three continents in just as many months, participated in research meetings, conferences and also a high-level international choir singing competition. And now the road lead to Africa and what I had long thought of as the dream job.
I’ve noticed a significant relationship between circumstances in my life, especially things that happened in my childhood, and my health.
I first attended Lightning course as a relative and was generally very interested in the human mind and the human being on a whole. Body and head, yes, thank you, I`ll choose both.
I’m Tina Røe Skaar, I’m 24 years old, and I am living a life slightly outside the norm.
My perception of the condition we refer to as ME is that there are various causes for what is then given one diagnosis. It is a process, a spiral down into unwellness from various beginning events, which is ultimately diagnosed as ME.
I will tell you what happened when I fell ill with CFS/ME and then recovered.
Camilla tried everything. After seven years of serious illness, she finally discovered a way to recover completely.