My journey into ME
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Jan 2019
Summary
The author, who had years of prior psychotherapy, did a Lightning Process course, which she credits with teaching her to "reprogram" the brain structures behind her illness. She traces her severe ME to a childhood marked by her mother's untreated psychiatric illness, daily threats of murder-suicide, and ongoing "material, psychological, latent and sometimes physical" violence that left her in a chronic fight-flight-freeze state; no precise duration is given beyond "so many years." She says she no longer experiences the symptoms that had damaged her quality of life for so long. No relapse or ongoing maintenance practice is mentioned in the story.
Read it in their words
recoverynorway.org — a recovery advocacy site.
What they credit
Credits CBT and psychotherapy, Lightning Process.
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