M.E/ Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) is described by the charity Action for M.E. as a chronic, fluctuating illness which affects many parts of the body including the nervous and immune systems.

The most common symptoms are severe fatigue or exhaustion, problems with memory and concentration and muscle pain.

M.E. is also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and sometimes diagnosed as Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome.

It is estimated to affect around 250,000 men, women and children in the UK from all social and ethnic groups, and appears to be more common in those aged 20-40 years of age.

For most the onset of the illness follows a pattern described by Phil Parker in his Lightening Process as a downward spiral of events:

1. You fall ill due to an initial bug or some stress, or external factor that started your M.E. This event caused an extreme stress on your immune system.
2. You felt very unwell. The symptoms were either very strong or lasted so long that you began to wonder if you'd ever get better. You consulted your doctor and specialists in a number of fields, but nobody seemed to have any answers, or provided much useful help, and the illness continued.
3. These concerns, understandably, made you even more stressed than you were when you got ill, which in turn made your body produce adrenaline and cortisol. Adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) and cortisol are a good and normal response to short term stress, but long term production of them exhausts us, it affects our blood sugar and thyroid levels, it suppresses (and messes up the proper regulation of) or immune system and makes us prone to illness and tiredness. . . . . this unfortunately makes you loop back to step 2.

This is only a brief and simplified description of what is a complex interaction of different systems not least the mind. This is not to say that the illness is all in the mind, it is very much in the body, as medical tests prove, but at a subconscious level the body is acting out the limitations which have their root in the way the mind thinks.

Treating M.E.

Changing Limiting Beliefs is a six session training program that will help you recognise limiting or damaging belief-systems and change them for good.

Making significant changes in your life requires determined effort and you need to take full responsibility in order for these changes to take place. You will need to question ideas and beliefs that you have held for a long time, and some people can find this very challenging.

For more information on this treatment and to read how this program has already helped sufferers of M.E., PVFS and CFS go to www.changinglimitingbeliefs.co.uk

Call 07706 996043 to arrange a free consultation to discuss how this training program can help you or email emma@emmadaffern.com