Yes Individuals Who Live with Chronic Fatigue Can Flourish

By Irene S. Roth

Chronic fatigue can make simple movements hurt, disrupt sleep, and reduce energy. It can impair work, social, recreational, and household activities. People who have been injured in accidents may also develop other symptoms, such as anxiety. Chronic fatigue can have a negative impact on financial security, and, in some cases, it can contribute to alcohol or drug abuse. It can also disrupt marital and family relationships if it isn’t managed effectively.

Fatigue is invisible. This can lead people who experience chronic fatigue to feel misunderstood or alone in their suffering. Some people may find the legitimacy of their pain is questioned. Other people believe pain is all in their head. There is a trite truth to this claim because pain and fatigue originate in the brain. However, our pain is real and isn’t imagined and fabricated. It is real for chronic fatigue sufferers. Given the impact that pain has on the quality of life and other life domains, it is not surprising that more than a quarter of people who experience chronic fatigue also experience depression and anxiety. However, the good news is that there are ways for chronic fatigue sufferers to cope with their pain and live a life that helps them flourish.

In this e-book, I will outline and discuss 16 ways you can flourish from the inside-out, despite your chronic fatigue. The good news is that you can be your best, even if you’re chronically ill. You don’t have to accept being second best as your modus operandi. You can learn to stretch yourself and grow inwardly. This is where true flourishing starts. If you live meaningfully, you will flourish just by living an authentic life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Irene S. Roth
• Release date: Nov 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005094812

Irene S. Roth

Irene S. Roth, MA is an academic and freelance writer. She writes academically, for teens and tweens and adults. When she isn't writing, she is teaching. She is also pursuing a Master's of Social Work Degree.

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Yes, Individuals Who Experience Chronic Fatigue Can Flourish

Irene S. Roth

Copyright 2021 Irene S. Roth

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Table of Content

Introduction

1. Practice Gratitude

2. Practice Self-Compassion

3. Keep Improving

4. After a Setback, Get Right Back on Track

5. Expect Good Health

6. Eat Less Red Meat

7. Have Sex More Often

8. De-Stress

9. Live a Full Life

10. Continue to Self-Actualize

11. Become Self-Fulfilled from Within

12. Experience Positive Emotions

13. Actively Engage with Life

14. Cultivate Meaningful Relationships

15. Serve a Larger Cause

16. Live a Vigorous Life

Conclusion

Resources

About the Author

Introduction

When we experience chronic fatigue, we stop believing that we can live our best life. Our culture keeps admonishing that flourishing is reserved for the healthy, young, and vibrant. But this simply isn’t the case because this view is based on an age bias that has become accepted by all of us. It simply isn’t true that people who live with chronic fatigue can’t do much anymore. The good news is that we are all capable of being our best, regardless of age or disability, because flourishing is brought about through your mind but not on the basis of your physical prowess.

There are two characterizations of flourishing: a physical and a psychological one. Physically, to flourish is to be in good physical health and vigorous. This, however, is only one minor aspect of flourishing. The more important meaning of flourishing is to grow from the inside or psychologically. This kind of flourishing requires that we develop, strengthen, improve, move forward, and grow. Therefore, we can be at our best interiorly, despite our physical limitations by ignoring our cultural and sometimes even individual age bias.

I believe that flourishing starts from within and then moves outwardly. Even young adults can only become excellent by developing psychological resiliency. Thus, we can all live a full and meaningful life from the inside-out, regardless of age. We don’t have to acquiesce in living within a negative mindset and feeling like we are continually declining. For one thing, this perception