Max
Frozen: Why couldn’t I move my arm?
Daughter (10), father and mother
“Our daughter was 10 years old, and every week mom had to carry her to her GP for help. Today she is 14 years old and completely healthy”
Jan Even Raastad
From a nursing patient to a mountain climber: “For four years I lay completely helpless and motionless in bed”
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 (29)
“To anyone struggling with ME, I want to say that you can get well!”
Live Landmark
“You can recover completely!”
Turid Spildo
“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” – a mother´s story
Randi Ribe
«I had whiplash, neck pains and low energy after a car accident. Today I have energy enough to do what I want»
Boy (17)
«A conversation with Arild Berg helped me escape ME »
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»
Alex Bermingham
“My whole world and understanding of things had been turned upside down, in the best way possible”
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”
Anette Veisten Lie
I was a mother with ME and two children sick with ME – There is hope!
Mother of a 12-year-old daughter
“Now our daughter will go out and experience happiness and sorrow – just like other teenagers. She has got her life back”
Man & medical doctor
«I suffered from CFS/ME. Since my recovery, I have completed medical school and worked as a doctor – full-time»
Father of daughter aged 12-20
“My daughter was ill for eight years, lying in the dark, being fed through a tube. Today she is well”
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»
Vilde Thorsen
«From having to sit in a wheelchair, I can now be active again and go training»
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”
Polina Chernomordik
“No magic was involved, no pills or medical stuff. Just my inner power and the power of my brain.”
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!'”
Stine Toppe Andersen
“I had a shower stool and a wheelchair, but today I am proud and extremely happy to say that I have recovered”
Mother of girl
My daughter’s ME recovery story
Torill Sorkmo
“It has been important for me to feel ownership to my own process. I’ve been my own coach all the way”
Mother of a boy
“When school started after the summer holiday, it was as if he’d never been 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”
Celina, Silje og Rune Fylkesnes
“Our daughter learnt how to shift her focus away from the illness, and to replace ‘sickness thoughts’ with ‘healthy thoughts’”
Mette Høvern
“I was once one of the most severely ill people in Norway: How I recovered from ME”
Thomas Overvik (by Randi Størseth)
Documentary: An undeniable truth – a contribution to living free of ME/CFS
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”
Emil, Leif og Lucie Størmer
“Emil learnt to control his focus by himself, and then things improved very quickly”
Anne Mari Romsaas Fredriksen
“I had to move in with my mother to get care, but now I define myself as recovered”
Marte Jürgensen
“Step by step I took my life back. My life’s big turnaround, I call it”
Anonymous
My journey into ME
Aina Elisabeth Tandberg-Bråthen
“I tricked my body into believing I would get well”
Bård Stranheim
Burned out. A journey in and out of exile from life.
Hanne Namsvatn
“I was one of the most severe cases of ME, but recovered completely”
Turid Spildo
“Body and head, yes, thank you, I`ll choose both.”
Tina Røe Skaar
“The illness experience, and the tools I learnt, made me an Olympic athlete”
Rosi Lovdal
What is ME? A spiral down into unwellness
Kristin
“When I read my story today about my illness period, I can hardly believe how bad it was”
Kirsti Dahl Johansen
“For me it became vital to think that I was well, to say I was well”
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”
Bjørne Skarbøe
“I ended up bedbound 24 hours a day, needing help to be fed, but if others could get well…”
Camilla Wiede Hellerud
“So, here I am, never better!”
Thomas Overvik
“I was transferred to a nursing home, laid out in darkness, not leaving bed for 15 months. But then my world view changed radically”
Arild Berg
“To me ME is no great mystery”
Espen Utaker (father)
«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»
Woman in her 30s
I want to recover – but how?
Woman (29)
“I got my life back!”
Aftur Spildo
«This illness will last for a long time. And why is that? Because I am already prepared to die – inside»
Nina og Svein Erik Høst
“At that moment it was absolutely essential that I was there”
