I personally liked it – yes I do focus on happiness and enjoyment most of the time, yes I am bedbound most of the time, and yes I have found meaning even through all the pain. If you can’t accept your illness as it is and live your life (despite chronic pain and other symptoms), you will always be in a state of Stress or negativity. This is pure energy that asks nothing of me; it is a gift..someone said that…, I use caffine to build on the cortisol burst after waking and surf through the morning, Metal is good for a late afternoon burst whilst I cook, one of my pleasures, and my wife isn’t home…. There are plenty of legitimate experts out there to help you-in books cd’s that you know WHO they are.Plenty of you are smart enough to figure this out. For some people, CFS can last for years. I appreciate you for sharing your concern. And although it might help some people cope a bit better, it will – in ME! So it’s a bit of a touchy subject as was obvious by my comment sorry about that, just let myself go a bit.. And of course I do understand that you want to serve the whole spectrum, which is good and neccessary, and I also understand that it can be helpful for people and it might have helped me if I could not have felt the way I have despite of everything. That may sound silly, but when you can’t do a lot, you take satisfaction in the small things! Depression is common in people with chronic illnesses and I would warrant that even small upsets tweak people who have stress -response-immune disorders such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. All I can offer as indicators and evidence of that I’m not a scam is Other people do benefit from these types of techniques, on the other hand, (I am one of them at times :)) and this website is for everybody…so these types of mind/body blogs will be present from time to time and we’ll have some blogs coming up that will be better matches for you, I promise and shortly, in fact :). Take a step back, people, and read the title again – it never claimed to cure our disease. 2007 Dec 30;137(1-2):94-101. I choose not to focus on those things, not to think about that if I can help it. Extreme mitochondrial dysfunction or orth. I’m going to try this novel and easy idea to infuse some mindfulness and re-awaken to the wonder that is so easily missed. This would reduce energy costs and make communities sustainable, enabling them to grow and prosper and would help make the world more sustainable. Thanks for your heart-felt response. Cleary CFS/ME & Fibromyalgia are real physical illnesses with real (& let’s face, severe) bodily dysfunction. As an ME-patient I don’t feel taken seriously with this to be honest. The thing that used to LIGHT YOU UP now only brings on feelings of dread and anxious thoughts. I believe that is just a mask to bury your reality. I was really surprised to read the comments below the article, as I did not take this post as a typical psych reaction to ME/CFS at all. One year later and voila we were singing. After all, we have fought long and hard to have this illness recognised as a real physical illness. (I know Health Rising is doing a lot of that for example with the Ampligen advocacy posts, which is awesome, thanks for that and for all the research coverage.).