Coping Strategies
The 1% Solution
The secret to improving with CFS and FM? Think small.
Stranded in the Grocery Store: How to Avoid Crashing While Shopping
Five strategies for preventing a collapse while away from home.
Advice to a New Patient
What are the most important things to remember in coping with chronic illness? Read some answers from fellow patients in this article.
Habit Change & Rules: Two Keys to Improvement
Two strategies that help when old habits make symptoms worse.
Sensory Overload: Sources and Strategies
One cause of confusion and other CFS/FM symptoms is too much sensory information. The article describes both treatments for sensory overload and preventive measures.
Seven Strategies for Reducing Guilt
Practical responses if you feel guilty for being sick.
Why Do Some People Not Get Better?
Well-known CFS/FM physician Dr. Charles Lapp offers some answers and some strategies.
Adjusting to Serious Illness: Strategies for Patients and Their Families
Ten ways for families to cope with CFS and FM.
Strengthening Intimacy: Six Strategies That Help
Strategies for improving intimacy.
Counting Your Blessings: How Gratitude Improves Your Health
New research shows that people who keep a gratitude journal report fewer symptoms and feel better about their lives.
Minimizing Flares with the Relapse & Special Event Worksheets
Understand and take control over setbacks using these two worksheets.
Planning Worksheets: A Tool for Pacing
How to use daily and weekly schedules to bring stability to your life.
Ten Tips for Travel
How to enjoy travel when you have a long-term illness.
Health Logs: Big Payoff on a Small Investment
A few minutes a day of record keeping can produce big benefits.
Optimism, Hope & Control: Attitudes & Health
Science has shown a link between attitude and health. Here's how a change in attitude can help you feel better.
Illness and Housekeeping
Housekeeping can feel overwhelming if you have a serious illness. Here's how one patient transformed clutter into order.
Key 2: Use Multiple Coping Strategies
How to develop an individualized self-management plan. (From the series 10 Keys to Successful Coping.)
Ten Keys to Successful Coping (2005)
Revised version of a series on how to live well with long-term illness.
Writing Is Good Medicine
CFS/FM writer Lisa Lorden Myers explains how writing can improve your health.
Surviving the Holidays
Tips for reducing stress and increasing enjoyment of the holidays, offered by guest author Karen Lee Richards.
Making a NOT TO DO List
One way to improve quality of life is by having a NOT TO DO list, suggests guest author Eunice Beck.
In Praise of Solitude
CFS patient JoWynn Johns describes how she found blessings in solitude.
Getting Through the Bad Days
Read guest author Patti Schmidt's strategies for handling relapses.
Personal Guidelines For Managing Chronic Illness
Having your own rules for managing illness can guide you forward and bring clarity in times of confusion.
Minimizing Relapses
Relapses are a frequent and often demoralizing part of chronic illness. Learn how to reduce their frequency and severity.
