A Beginner's Guide to ME/CFS

Read this based on the number of stars it had received. It is helpful but very short with a fair amount of repetition. I also found myself resenting the author's insistence that she knows what sort of person the reader was before they were diagnosed. “A go-getter who always went the extra mile and loved keeping fit”. What if you weren't? What if you'd not been particularly sporty?

Also the insistence that you only have ME if you are at the severe end of the spectrum. Does that mean the rest of us are suffering from the very psychiatric disorder that the book is attempting to disprove?

I went in to the book eager for answers and support but came away feeling “othered”. I'm sure that isn't the intent, and maybe it was just my perception of it, but just wanted to offer a slight word of caution to others newly diagnosed.