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David S. Bell, Ph.D. and Stef Donev. Paperback, Published
1996
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| Synopsis: "Curing Fatigue is the essential guide to replacing
fatigue with energy. In one easy-to-use reference guide, readers will
learn how to fight the six basic causes of fatigue, like illness and
stress, as well as 25 hidden causes of fatigue, like computer fatigue
and sick building syndrome. Previously published by Rodale."
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Other books by David S. Bell:
Finding
Strength in Weakness: Help and Hope for Families Battling Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, paperback, 1995.
Hope
and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; The Official Guide of the CFS/CFIDS
Network, paperback, 1992.
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David S. Bell. Paperback, Published 1995
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| Synopsis: "Written by the nation's most recognized CFIDS authority
and officially endorsed by the CFIDS Association, this book is the
definitive, up-to-date guide for the three to five million people
who suffer from Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. Now at
last, anyone touched by this illness can have the solid information
they need to understand and live with CFIDS"
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Katrina H. Berne, Ph.D. Paperback, Published 1992 (2nd
Rev edition); Hardcover, 1995 (2nd edition)
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| The publisher, Hunter House Publishers, December 2, 1997: "'Well-researched,
well-organized, and eminently readable, [Running on Empty] should
prove quite a boon to CFIDS sufferers.' - Booklist. Although difficult
to diagnose, CFIDS is a real, biologically-based disease with many
options for effective treatment and management. Written by a clinical
expert who has CFIDS herself, RUNNING ON EMPTY offers clarity, hope,
and support. It includes: - the new diagnostic criteria for CFIDS
adopted in 1994 and how it differs from depression - summaries of
recent medical findings on treatments, complementary therapies, and
the search for a cure - ideas on living with the effects of CFIDS
and the feelings of rage, helplessness, and guilt it can create Accurate
information, intimate stories of other sufferers, extensive bibliographies
and resources, and a sympathetic, upbeat tone make this an invaluable
self-help book for CFIDS patients and a complete reference for the
health-care professionals who treat them.
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| Susan Conant. Paperback, published 1990.
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| Synopsis: "Written by a recently recovered CFS sufferer, this
book offers comfort, hope and reassurance--exactly what millions of
chronic fatigue sufferers long for. It defines what CFS is and offers
realistic information on where to get help and what to expect from
family, friends, and the business and medical communities."
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Kat Duff. Paperback, Published 1994
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| From Kirkus Reviews, January 1, 1993: "From the sickbed of
a woman of `mystical temperament': very personal, sometimes quirky,
essays on illness, blending 20th-century psychology with holistic
spirituality. Duff, a counselor in private practice in New Mexico,
became ill in 1988 with chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome
(CFIDS), an illness for which there is as yet no cure: The only remedy
is a few years of rest. Because she has an illness that is poorly
understood by medical science, Duff questions the Western approach
to medicine and health and looks outside it for answers to her questions.
Illness, she asserts, defies the rules of ordinary reality and shares
in ``the hidden logic of dreams, fairy tales, and the spirit realms
mystics and shamans describe.'' This is a world where Duff seems to
be exceptionally comfortable. She finds deep significance in her own
visions and dreams, and she draws analogies between illness and initiation
rites, noting that each involves a loss and that each may result in
a new wisdom, a new power. Some of her conclusions are extraordinary:
A meeting with a shaman leads her to the idea that her own illness
is somehow connected to her ancestors' unfair acquisition of Indian
land in Minnesota generations ago. Less startling is the link Duff
makes between the onset of her illness and her recollection of having
been sexually abused as an infant and her subsequent work with this
memory in therapy. Readers accustomed to more straightforward accounts
may find Duff's musings difficult to accept; still, her insights into
common attitudes toward illness, and into the changes wrought in an
individual by illness, are often enlightening."
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Burton Goldberg. Paperback, Published 1998
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| Book Description: "Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and environmental
illness can be permanently reversed using nontoxic alternative medicine
treatments. In this book, 26 leading physicians explain the techniques
and natural substances that brought complete recovery to their patients."
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Hillary Johnson. Hardcover, 1996; Paperback, 1997
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From Booklist , February 1, 1996, William Beatty: "This oddly
titled book contains a vast amount of material on a questionable disease
that swept across the country during the past decade. Johnson draws
on many interviews and professional meetings to document clinical
and research work on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and she knows
well the medical and popular literature on and the media's dealings
with her passionately disputed topic. Incline Village, Nevada, physicians
Paul Cheney and Dan Peterson first identified CFS and treated hundreds
of patients. Johnson documents the sneering opposition of both the
Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health
to recognizing CFS as a genuine disease, the hands-off attitude toward
it of several leading medical journals, and the obloquy many physicians
heaped on it. Neither Cheney, Peterson, nor any other clinician or
researcher could ever absolutely identify the cause of the syndrome,
and many in the opposition firmly believed it to be a product of psychiatric
disturbances. Johnson's exhaustive volume is a benchmark in the strange
history of an even stranger illness."
Johnson's book is controversial because she supports the idea that
CFS is caused by a virus and contagious. This view is not in the mainstream,
even among CFS researchers. From what I've heard, the rest of the
book seems solid.
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Benjamin H. Natelson. Paperback or Hardcover, Published
1998
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| From Booklist, March 1, 1998, by William Beatty: "As a professor
of neurosciences and director of the V.A.'s East Orange, N.J., Gulf
War Research Center and the New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Center,
Natelson has clinical and research experience with a broad range of
patients suffering from fatigue. He writes for the more than 10 percent
of Americans who frequently suffer from it. Although he devotes much
space to chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, the two major
causes of fatigue, he also explores other possible causes, methods
of avoiding all causes, and many treatments. He discusses stress and
depression and emphasizes, above all, the need for a knowledgeable
and sympathetic physician. Natelson's practical book deserves special
credit for the observation that 'often the doctor has not realized
that the job is not to cure but to help.'"
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Neenyah Ostrom, Neeyah Ostrom. Paperback, Published 1993
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causes, its symptoms, if it is contagious, its relationship to AIDS,
its relationship to cancer, its effect on children, what the government
is doing about it, and more."
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Nancy G. Klimas (Introduction), Roberto Patarca (Editor).
Paperback or Hardcover, Published 1998
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| Synopsis: "Written by the nation's most recognized CFIDS authority
and officially endorsed by the CFIDS Association, this book is the
definitive, up-to-date guide for the three to five million people
who suffer from Chronic Fatigue/Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. Now at
last, anyone touched by this illness can have the solid information
they need to understand and live with CFIDS"
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| Jesse Stoff M.D., Charles R. Pellegrino Ph.D. Paperback, published
1992.
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| Synopsis: "Since the first edition, this widely praised bestseller
has helped thousands of people recognize and understand the debilitating
effects of chronic fatigue syndrome. Difficult to diagnose and impossible
to cure, CFS strikes an alarming number of people each year. Now the
authors provide hope with a comprehensive program to fight CFS"
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Jacob Teitelbaum. Paperback, Published 1996
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Synopsis: "From Fatigued to Fantastic! is an authoritative
and comprehensive resource guide for individuals who suffer from
CFIDS and fibromyalgia. It explains, in easy-to-understand language,
what these disorders are, what their symptoms are, where they may
come from, and how you can eliminate them. Specific guidelines for
diagnosis and treatment are clearly and concisely presented for
both the patient and the physician. Chapters on nutritional problems,
adrenal insufficiency, hypothyroidism, hormonal imbalances, yeast
overgrowth, sleep disorders, parasitic infections, and more. It
also looks at the new and exciting studies being done on DHEA, magnesium,
and malic acid. It provides instructions for physicians on the use
of both natural and pharmacological supplements. There are also
important resources offered, guiding you to doctors, patient support
groups, supplies, and services. In addition to being one of this
country's leading clinicians and researchers on effective treatments
of CFIDS and fibromyalgia, author Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, has experienced
and overcome these illnesses himself. From Fatigued to Fantastic!,
therefore, not only reflects the cutting edge of scientific discovery,
but provides sympathetic understanding from one who has experienced
the debilitating effects of these problems firsthand."
Review by tim (tlhaupt@netzero.net):
A nice introduction to the conditions, possible causes and possible
curative actions. His approach is a bit over-optimistic. His premise
is that it can be cured, or at least it appears to be his over-arching
premise. But the information in the book is good for us newbies.
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Janice Strubbe Wittenberg RN, Randy S. Baker. Paperback,
Published 1996
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or chronic fatigue syndrome receive a manual of self-care which tells
how to identify environmental allergic reactions and how to avoid
toxic and damaging substances in the environment. Chapters survey
relationships between diet and immune functions and tell how to support
the body's recovery process."
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