Chronic Fatigue Survivor's Blog

A blog about my experience recovering from Chronic Fatigue

Browsing Posts tagged Emotional Stress

I've found The Sedona Method of "letting go" helpful in dealing with my stress and anxiety about feeling ill for so long. I use it on and off on a daily basis, especially when I feel myself getting anxious about things not being the way that I want them to be. What we resist persists, [...]

I'm adding a group of pages to my blog on how to deal with difficult emotions that arise as part and parcel of Chronic Fatigue. Check the Emotions drop-down menu for more details. Todays featured emotion is Shame. I'll add more in the future, as inspiration arises.

It's been 3 months today since I started the Gupta programme. It seems to be helping. I just sent an email to a reader who's about to start, and here are some suggestions from it: I think the trick is that when you have an increase in energy... don't do more activity than what you've [...]

Nothing triggers my emotional insecurities like a pretty girl who appears disinterested in me. There's one such girl in my Toastmasters club. Let's call her Liz. She's extraordinarily pretty, intelligent, slim, shy and endearing. Shy and endearing look pretty attractive on a girl. When she turned up to a club meeting a few months ago, [...]

This is an edited excerpt from an email I sent to a reader asking whether the treatment in the Gupta program worked. After trying a bunch of other treatments and listening to crackpot theories from many quarters, I'm convinced that Ashok Gupta has hit the nail on the head with his amygdala hypothesis. CFS seems [...]