CFIDS/Fibromyalgia Toolkit

Introduction

This book offers a message of hope to people with CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) and fibromyalgia. Even though you have an illness for which there is so far no cure, there are many things you can do to improve your quality of life. Through reading this book and practicing the techniques you find here, you can take an active role in improving your well-being. You will learn tools for reducing symptoms, and strategies for creating a more stable and predictable life.

This book offers a kind of treatment for CFIDS and fibromyalgia, but one that differs from other treatments you may have tried. In contrast to ones you receive from others, this one you administer to yourself. This self-help approach is based on the assumption that you can change the effects of the illness and even its course through your efforts. The book is intended to be a manual for personal change, offering you ideas to help you understand your illness better as well as tools to improve your quality of life.