Coping with CFS/ME - Thomas Harrison, LCSW

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
  • This presentation was made during the OFFER 2007 Patient's Conference by Thomas Harrison, LCSW.
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Komentáře • 16

  • @adinashenry5474
    @adinashenry5474 Před 3 lety +1

    I am so grateful for this talk , thank you. I am one of the millions missing. I am bedbound /homebound - have been for a few years now. I am in the severe range . I am not giving up hope, though some days are very hard.

  • @jacquelineczizik8166
    @jacquelineczizik8166 Před 4 lety +2

    I haven't been officially diagnosed with CFS but I do believe it is the underlying cause of the many problems I have been experiencing the last three years. My energy has diminished and some days feels as if disappeared. I can be outside in 90 degree weather and shiver while my hands are cold. I have endless upper respiratory infections (most often ears and throat. I went from moderate seasonal allergies to 37 indoor/outdoor allergies. I have been diagnosed with postural BP, and if anxious my palpitations now include ventricular tachycardia. Today, I thought since my allergies under control I will do what my therapist suggested and walk beyond my threshold. On route home, I had Vertigo and stumbled to a car. I held on and then had to sit down. It took more than twenty minutes to pass. What followed was shakiness and extreme nausea. I managed getting up and walked the five minutes to home. I took my anti nausea med, antihistamine and Xanax before crashing on sofa. I will likely spend a day in bed. I can't work anymore, socialize very rarely and have gained 25 pounds in a year. I was once a seven mile a day Power Walker and now a ten block walk more than I can manage. Safeguarding is my new way of living. I look in my cabinet and see my medications grow in size. Though receiving allergy shots weekly, I still need to take five other meds. This doesn't include the ones I take for mental health. Thank you for showing me at some point it will get more livable and there is room for hope. A day like to day, all I could feel was knocked off my horse. Your story so therapeutic. I do have IGG2 deficiency which accounts for all the infections.

  • @Lchristyhastings
    @Lchristyhastings Před 10 lety +1

    Nailed it. Nailed it. Nailed it.
    After a decade with CFIDS, I spent a year trying to do all the things that I once loved to do, to see if I could, and to see if there was any joy left. And I found it. Now, I am changing my entire life to be in or on water (either floating face down with snorkel & mask, or sailing & sleeping on a boat). CFIDS seems to make me motion sick on land, but not on the water. Who knew?! Plus the bed and toilet are 5' away.

  • @ladyangi100
    @ladyangi100 Před 12 lety

    Your experiences as a professional and a patient I am sorry is encouraging because you speak what you know and I Thank You for your instructions and and insight that is so very helpful. Thank you so much.

  • @mischa23406
    @mischa23406 Před 9 lety +1

    Best video ever explaining CFS

  • @patriciahurt990
    @patriciahurt990 Před 8 lety

    Thank you Thomas for your compassionate insights.

  • @angelalinford690
    @angelalinford690 Před 8 lety

    So grateful for his understanding insight.

  • @elainewilhelm5487
    @elainewilhelm5487 Před 6 lety

    Dr. Gary Gordon says, "at the root of all our chronic illnesses is lead exposure!" He is so right!

  • @navywife102007
    @navywife102007 Před 9 lety

    Thank you

  • @mysticheart4685
    @mysticheart4685 Před 7 lety

    This is a very honest interpretation of what it's like.

  • @katherinemch
    @katherinemch Před 6 lety +1

    Is there a transcript available for this?

  • @KT-si9rz
    @KT-si9rz Před 2 lety +3

    SPENCER

  • @matthawk8035
    @matthawk8035 Před 10 lety

    Anyone out there with any help for myself in belfast would be great because are support group northern ireland me assosiation has been closed down :(

  • @elainewilhelm5487
    @elainewilhelm5487 Před 6 lety

    Some no doubt also have Lyme and co-infections!

  • @MichaelR-db2ov
    @MichaelR-db2ov Před 3 měsíci

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  • @michaelfortune9997
    @michaelfortune9997 Před 6 lety +3

    Hahaha what a pathetic video 'coping with CFS' why do people waste their time doing talks and videos about coping with CFS? People should be recovering not coping. Theres so much information out there....