CFS/ME - Free Support
As a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sufferer for over 10 years, I was for a long time desperate for answers and support to find a path to recovery. As is so often the case, those answers and support were scant at best from traditional healthcare providers, hell, securing a diagnosis was itself a significant challenge.
Now, there is far more information available about the condition, its causes and methods to both manage and recover, primarily on the internet, often provided by fellow sufferers who have managed to find a path to recovery and now want to help others to do the same.
Like most sufferers, I wouldn’t want anyone else, especially those close to me, to have to suffer the pain, discomfort and anxiety so often associated with the symptoms of CFS. If I can, I want to help others avoid triggering this condition or once triggered, find a faster route to first managing and then recovering.
Unfortunately, the cost of the expertise that some recovered higher profile sufferers now offer is prohibitive for many, excluding them from the support they so desperately need. I can fully understand that these individuals would want to realise some gain from such an unpleasant life experience as a chronic illness, however I really can’t reconcile why such support is so expensive, given at its core it is essentially education and practical guidance and relies primarily on the sufferer to apply the practice, and therefore doing most of the work. Sure, a lot of effort has most likely been spent developing their programme, associated materials and organisational administration, but still I find it difficult to understand why such self-help programmes are so very expensive to access. Illness doesn’t consider individual wealth.
My personal approach would be to offer support for FREE, inviting sufferers who see improvement, and hopefully in time a full recovery, to then offer what they can afford in return e.g. nothing at all, a financial donation or their time and/or skills to help others, appropriate to what they believe the support they received is worth to them.
Altruistic, or even stupid perhaps, but I have been there, desperate to regain my quality of life, already accruing significant spend and time on one failed prospective treatment after another, eventually coming to realise that all I needed was the knowledge to implement my own recovery.
In summary, that is what I am prepared to offer, one-to-one support to impart what I have learned to date and guide my fellow sufferer, based on my own lived experience with this condition. This support is offered for FREE, no strings attached or commitment required, other than your sincerity and determination to put the work in.
Obviously, I can only offer effective support to a small number of sufferers at one time, so regrettably I have to limit this number.
This is also a call to other recovering sufferers and indeed trained professionals, in the spirit of my book ‘ARK’, to give a little of their time and expertise in support - maybe we can start a positive movement affording all sufferers the benefit from our knowledge and experience with this condition.
I therefore invite you to contact me at jmgeorgesson@gmail.com if you would like to be considered for or discuss the support programme.
