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ANS REWIRE
CFS/ME
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I realized there was nothing spectacularly wrong with my body. My fear of never getting better had kept me from getting better!
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
The doctors could neither explain why I was ill, nor help me. But I did get well
Chronic pain
Other methods
My life was a painful hell, but now this back that was unable to stand upright can deadlift 130 kgs
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Now our daughter will go out and experience happiness and sorrow – just like other teenagers. She has got her life back
CFS/ME
Other methods
Beating ME: Interview with Sophie Helbig on The Puzzle of Healing
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Instead of feeling guilty and tired out, I feel confident to live my life – I know how to manage my emotions better
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
At that moment it was absolutely essential that I was there
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
What is ME? A spiral down into unwellness
Children with CFS/ME
Other methods
At last, there was somebody who understood. This is why I was on the phone, crying because of the kindness of these strangers
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
My whole world and understanding of things had been turned upside down, in the best way possible
Functional Neurological Disorder
Other methods
Frozen: Why couldn’t I move my arm?
Chronic pain
Lightning Process (LP)
Body and head, yes, thank you, I`ll choose both
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Eight years of sickness is history. My son once again has a mother, my husband has a wife, and I’ve got a life!
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
Q-fever
I had to move in with my mother to get care, but now I define myself as recovered
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Our daughter was 10 years old, and every week mom had to carry her to her GP for help
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
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
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
So, here I am, never better!
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
A farewell letter to chronic fatigue
Long Covid
Other methods
I have learnt with this condition people get better from hope, kindness and love, not fear and catastrophe
Lightning Process (LP)
Tension headaches
When I read my story today about my illness period, I can hardly believe how bad it was
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
For me it was about realising that the mind and body is connected, and learn that I could influence my health through cognitive tools
activity management
CFS/ME
Other methods
From ME to MMA
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
No magic was involved, no pills or medical stuff. Just my inner power and the power of my brain
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
I am no longer afraid of symptoms, or a few days of tiredness, because I know it will pass!
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
At the CFS/ME centre they were shocked to see how ill I was. Today I could not be happier with my life
CFS/ME
Documentary: An undeniable truth – a contribution to living free of ME/CFS
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
If I had believed all the negative things I read on the net, I would not have recovered
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I was once one of the most severely ill people in Norway: How I recovered from ME
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I want to recover – but how?
CFS/ME
Other methods
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
Freedom from Chronic Pain
Long Covid
POTS
It was a great revelation and relief to discover that I had the power to heal myself
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
If I could sleep for a hundred years…
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I was one of the most severe cases of ME, but recovered completely
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
My daughter’s ME recovery story
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
Burned out. A journey in and out of exile from life
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
It is awfully demanding when you are seriously ill, but it is well worth the effort!
Free to Heal
SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth)
I was always running to the toilet and always tired. It is pretty cool to see how you can improve your life this way
CFS/ME
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I was a mother with ME and two children sick with ME – There is hope!
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
To me ME is no great mystery
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
My journey into ME
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
You can recover completely!
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Our daughter was one of the sickest in the country, but now our worst nightmare is over
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Emil learnt to control his focus by himself, and then things improved very quickly
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete
CFS/ME
Stress management
Step by step I took my life back. My life’s big turnaround, I call it
CFS/ME
Fibromyalgia
Other methods
POTS
My message to all ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and POTS sufferers is ‘don’t lose hope!
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I had a shower stool and a wheelchair, but today I am proud and extremely happy to say that I have recovered
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
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
Long Covid
Other methods
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
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
The symptoms often made me feel stressed and worried, as I saw them as a sign that something was wrong with my body
Long Covid
Other methods
POTS
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?’
CFS/ME
Stress management
I now had the knowledge to understand, the will to accept, and the tools to adjust
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I was an ME patient for 23 years. I was in care. Today I can do anything I want, and I enjoy living my life
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I was transferred to a nursing home, laid out in darkness, not leaving bed for 15 months. But then my world view changed radically
Lightning Process (LP)
Long Covid
I had long Covid. I have fully recovered
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
For me it became vital to think that I was well, to say I was well
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
To anyone struggling with ME, I want to say that you can get well!
Long Covid
POTS
I knew that one of the things that was keeping me sick was my constant focus on my illness
CFS/ME
Other methods
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
CFS/ME
Other methods
Never, never give up hope that you can make progress towards your goal of recovery
CFS/ME
Stress management
Luckily I am stubborn, and so I decided to disprove the idea that you just have to live with this diagnosis
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I think insight and help to find strategies made all the difference for my daughter
Lightning Process (LP)
Long Covid
I am back to myself – fun with family and friends, working in a full-time job that I love!
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
My daughter was ill for eight years, lying in the dark, being fed through a tube. Today she is well
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I got my life back!
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
Our daughter learnt how to shift her focus away from the illness, and to replace ‘sickness thoughts’ with ‘healthy thoughts’
Chronic pain
Lightning Process (LP)
I had whiplash, neck pains and low energy after a car accident. Today I have energy enough to do what I want
Chronic pain
Other methods
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
ANS REWIRE
CFS/ME
I created a situation where the evidence for what I was worried about, was created by the worries themselves
CFS/ME
MindBody Reconnect
Our brains are physical and they play a big part in how we react to viruses and diseases
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
This illness will last for a long time. And why is that? Because I am already prepared to die – inside
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
It is incredible to see how the mind and body is connected
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
I had to work incredibly hard to avoid reverting to the pattern of exhaustion I had been stuck in
CFS/ME
Other methods
It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I’ve been my own coach all the way
activity management
Chronic fatigue
Other methods
Stress management
If I had let my symptoms stop me, I would never have been able to continue
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
It is hard to put aside principles you have set up because you so desperately want to be believed
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
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
Children with CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
When school started after the summer holiday, it was as if he’d never been ill
Chronic fatigue
Lightning Process (LP)
Stress management
Much of what made me ill, was probably the expectation that I would get ill
CFS/ME
Other methods
I tricked my body into believing I would get well
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
From having to sit in a wheelchair, I can now be active again and go training
activity management
Children with CFS/ME
I was 13 years, and had no energy at all, but now I live my life the way I want to
CFS/ME
Lightning Process (LP)
From a nursing patient to a mountain climber: For four years I lay completely helpless and motionless in bed