The Fibro/CFS Bookshelf

Books recommended by myself and my friends - people who have lived these conditions and read these books ourselves. Nothing "mass market" about this bookshelf!!

*** Spotlight Book! *** 'Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome: A Survival Manual', by Devin J Starlanyl and Mary Ellen Copeland. Check it out here!

• Coping Shelf - Books about coping with CFS and/or FMS, these might include suggested treatments but are generally about how to live with the disease, rather than claiming to cure it.
  

  NoPity Shirts NoPity Shirts is a wonderful little net.shop that sells T-shirts with a wonderful assortment of fun slogans that will be suitable for people with CFS and Fibro and any other invisible disability or chronic illness. We also have shirts - in all different styles and colours - that will suit anybody with any disability, or just anybody what'd like some motivation. The web address is: http://nopityshirts.com/

• Treatments Shelf - Books which claim to show ways to treat or 'cure' CFS and/or FMS. Given that there currently is no single cure for these diseases, much of the content of these books may need to be taken with a grain of salt - and a healthy dose of common sense - but many of them contain useful information also.
  
• Biographies Shelf - Books about people who've had CFS and/or FMS, most of them have been written by the patient themselves, some by partners, parents or children.
  
• Fiction Shelf - Fictional (story) books where one of the characters have CFS and/or FMS.
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  Medical Shelf - Books about CFS and/or FMS which have been written for doctors and other medical people to read.
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  Other Shelf - Other books which have some relation to CFS and/or FMS but which did not fit any of the other categories.
  
• Humour Shelf - Books about medical/disability things that'll make you laugh - good for your health and your emotions!
  
• The Stress Reduction Shelf - Everybody with a chronic illness gets stressed sometimes. These books concentrate on coping with that stress.

The Biiiiiiiiiig Bookshelf

• All! - All the books on all the shelves are also on this shelf. Use this shelf if you know your book is up here but you're not sure which shelf it's on.

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