Topic: Coping Strategies
Adjusting to Serious Illness: Strategies for Patients and Their Families
Ten ways for families to cope with CFS and FM.
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.
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.
Getting Through the Bad Days
Read guest author Patti Schmidt's strategies for handling relapses.
Habit Change & Rules: Two Keys to Improvement
Two strategies that help when old habits make symptoms worse.
Health Logs: Big Payoff on a Small Investment
A few minutes a day of record keeping can produce big benefits.
Illness and Housekeeping
Housekeeping can feel overwhelming if you have a serious illness. Here's how one patient transformed clutter into order.
In Praise of Solitude
CFS patient JoWynn Johns describes how she found blessings in solitude.
Key 2: Use Multiple Coping Strategies
How to develop an individualized self-management plan. (From the series 10 Keys to Successful Coping.)
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.
Minimizing Flares with the Relapse & Special Event Worksheets
Understand and take control over setbacks using these two worksheets.
Minimizing Relapses
Relapses are a frequent and often demoralizing part of chronic illness. Learn how to reduce their frequency and severity.
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.
Personal Guidelines For Managing Chronic Illness
Having your own rules for managing illness can guide you forward and bring clarity in times of confusion.
Planning Worksheets: A Tool for Pacing
How to use daily and weekly schedules to bring stability to your life.
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.
Strengthening Intimacy: Six Strategies That Help
Strategies for improving intimacy.
Surviving the Holidays
Tips for reducing stress and increasing enjoyment of the holidays, offered by guest author Karen Lee Richards.
Ten Keys to Successful Coping (2005)
Revised version of a series on how to live well with long-term illness.
Ten Tips for Travel
How to enjoy travel when you have a long-term illness.
The 1% Solution
The secret to improving with CFS and FM? Think small.
Why Do Some People Not Get Better?
Well-known CFS/FM physician Dr. Charles Lapp offers some answers and some strategies.
Writing Is Good Medicine
CFS/FM writer Lisa Lorden Myers explains how writing can improve your health.
