Whilst Toby clearly stated that CFS/ME is not all in the mind, he emphasised the negative effect stress has on those with CFS/ME and a lot of chronic illnesses, and from personal experience I can defiantly vouch for stress causing my symptoms to flare up.

Stress is the #1 cause of chronic illness in the world.

We can be our own worst enemy. People with CFS/ME can often stop doing things because doing them causes anxiety and to be frank it is truly quite scary.

This can be from:

• The anxiety that doing the thing in question is going to cause you some pretty serious payback
• You wonder if you have forgotten how to do it
• Run over various outcomes in your head about how it is going to go and,
• How people are going to react to you.

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