Break free from the crippling cycle of chronic fatigue

This valuable self-help guide offers ways of improving long-lasting fatigue associated with a range of long-term conditions including chronic fatigue syndrome. Using recognised techniques, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps to change coping strategies. The approach described helps people break the vicious circle of fatigue and for many results in a reduction in symptoms and disability.

This fully updated new edition provides:
Understanding of the latest thought on homeostasis and achieving balance
Guidance on how to improve sleep
Practical strategies for balancing activity and rest
Tips on setting and working towards targets that would improve your life
Step-by-step advice on dealing with blocks to recovery
Tools for coping with worry and stress
Ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts
Suggestions for how partners, relatives and friends can help

Overcoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.

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Series Editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper

Mary Burgess has worked as a cognitive behavioural therapist with patients with severe fatigue for thirty years. In addition to her clinical work, she has been engaged in research and development. This involved developing and evaluating interventions for adults and adolescents who experienced difficulty in getting to the hospital due to the severity of their symptoms. With colleagues, this work has been published in academic journals and led to the writing of the original version of this book.

Trudie Chalder is a professor of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy at King's College London. She has worked as a clinician and a researcher in the area of fatigue for about thirty-five years. She developed the cognitive behavioural treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, and the approach has now been evaluated in a number of clinical research trials with positive results.