Facing & Fighting Fatigue – A Practical Approach - Hardcover

Natelson, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300068484 ISBN 13: 9780300068481

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1998

Synopsis

We all know what it is to be exhausted: fatigue seems to be a normal part of human experience when we are overactive, have physical or emotional problems, face stress, or suffer from insomnia. Some of us, in fact, suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), an illness characterized by pervasive fatigue that produces significant disability and lasts more than six months. In this book, a specialist in fatigue disorders discusses all kinds of fatigue problems, explaining what fatigue is, what causes it, how to combat it, and what patients should know when consulting a doctor about symptoms. The book offers advice on: how to improve your sleep; ways to find understanding and sympathetic doctors; self-help techniques to manage stress (the role of exercise and relaxation); the best medicines and ancillary techniques used by expert physicians to treat severe fatiguing illness; the efficacy of alternative medicines; and ways for those with severe and chronic fatigue to cope with their own illness.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin H. Natelson is professor of neurosciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, and director of the New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Center.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300068484
• ISBN 13: 9780300068481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218