Yes. Amazing, isn’t it? This is a statement that was made by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the States a short while ago. And the even more shocking fact? Conventional medicine cannot offer any consistent hope for recovery. In fact, many doctors having excluded all other possibilities, only reluctantly then diagnose CFS. And the reluctance? Because they often don’t believe in it and don’t know how to treat it.
However, by that time sometimes months if not years can have passed. And the best time to treat CFS? As soon as the first symptoms set in.
How can we change this public neglect?
Firstly, we need to identify it quicker. We need to identify it before the personality has become shaped by it and before, what we call in my business, secondary gain, has set in. Secondly, we need to be aware of the Mind-Body link in this condition.
Many affected by CFS resist categorically and emphatically the notion that the way they’re thinking might contribute to, if not cause, their symptoms. And consequently one whole avenue of possible recovery is closed without question.
However, the third awareness we need to raise is that to get well from this condition, you need to work with every aspect of optimum health in a variety of different ways according to the needs of the individual. There can be no one size fits all in the treatment of ME/CFS.
That’s why it’s essential that, even if you never meet a client, or a colleague or a friend with ME/CFS that you get yourself educated about its impact on every aspect of life: work, family, and social. Because without any public safety net that can capture and treat this condition, you’re going to meet it more and more in all walks of life.
I’ve worked with dozens of people with CFS, given public lectures, and treated patients that the doctors at their wits end have referred, trained 60+ therapists to be able to work the same way, and set up an unusual support group: no moaning about symptoms in our group.
Because we know that what you think about you create!
So to redress this public neglect we need to understand how all aspects of the mind, body and spirit need optimum health. In fact, which condition could this not describe! We are not a collection of symptoms but a living breathing individual whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Pythagoras understood that. What’s happened to modern medicine in the meantime? For more information go to http://www.openmindtherapy.co.uk/howtotreatcfs.html