A Reading Suggestion For Persons With CFS

Struggling with a new set of circumstances is to be expected when dealt the hand of living with a chronic illness. There are lots of people willing to give advice on how to live effectively – doctors, friends, family, bloggers (that would be me), self help book. The list goes on and on. Most of the advice I have received, I have thrown away. After all, no one knows me better than me. However, years and years ago- when the struggle was at its worst, for me. My doctor insisted that I read a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl.

I am not going to do a big summary of what this book is about. I will just give you a fact about Dr. Frankl -he was a survivor of Auschwitz. The book is a chronicle of his experiences in a concentration camp. It teaches us about survival, and how attitude is everything.

Here is just one of the memorable quotes:

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

It’s a really important read – and will definitely help with the journey that you are on. You can order it through amazon.