Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (New Edition)

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Unlike a leg in a cast, invisible chronic illness (ICI) has no observable symptoms.

In consequence, people who be afflicted by chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and lots of other miseries regularly endure not only the ailment but dismissive and negative reactions from others. Since its first publication, Sick and Tired of Feeling In poor health and Tired has offered hope and coping strategies to thousands of people that be afflicted by ICI. Paul Donoghue and Mary Siegel teach their readers how to rethink how they themselves view their illness and how to keep up a correspondence with loved ones and doctors in a way that meets their needs. The authors’ understanding makes readers feel they have got been heard for the first time. For this edition, the authors include a new introduction drawing on the experiences of the many of us who have responded to the book and to their lectures and television appearances. They expand the definition of ICI to include other ailments such as depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. They bring the resource material, including Web sites, up to the present, and they offer fresh insights on four topics that regularly emerge: guilt, how ICI affects the circle of relatives, meaningfulness, and defining acceptance.

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