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It’s All In Your Head

Posted by Pamela Rice Hahn on May 12, 2009.

Anyone who copes with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Fibromyalgia (FM) knows there are people out there with all sorts of theories about what’s wrong with them. We’ve heard it all: You’re just depressed. If you’d exercise more, you’d feel better. The insulting “it’s all in your head.” And on and on.

The worst insult is probably: Everybody gets tired.

We know that! Before we got sick, we just got tired, too. But this fatigue is far beyond anything I (or most of the rest of us) would wish on anyone. If you can imagine how you feel on the worst day of having the flu, you can imagine how somebody with CFS feels on a good day.

That’s why it took me more than two months before I could get past the opening line to read the article I’m about to recommend.

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Welcome to Chronic-Illness.org. My work on the things you'll find on this site began in 1999, when I originally hosted this information at RiceHahn.com. After a year as the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Guide on About.com, in October 2005 I acquired Chronic-Illness.org and set it up as the place to host my updated content that I moved from RiceHahn.com and About.com. It's now three years later. In my ongoing efforts to continue to add timely information and make it easier for you to find the stuff I have here, I am in the process of transitioning the existing content to a new database-driven, WordPress system.

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pammy the pencil a character in the Writing Woes comic strip and the Chronic Illness Realities Comic Strip Pammy is the main character in two comic strips by Pamela Rice Hahn, the first of which is the Writing Woes comic strip. Pammy is a writer who is also disabled because of chronic illness and chronic conditions, so she also appears in the Chronic Illness Realities comic strip. When Pammy dons her gray suit and assumes her counter identity as Thera Pist, you can be assured that something's inspired her to go to work as an Observational Therapist. The Observational Therapist Thera Pist is a character in the Writing Woes comic strip and the Chronic Illness Realities Comic Strip Those observations are often political, so that's when Thera Pist hangs out at The Observational Therapist comic strip; in addition to the other political cartoons, the other pages at The Observational Therapist host Christian conservative blog observations and commentary that are too wordy for a comic strip.

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Who Is Pamela Rice Hahn?

A professional writer since 1984, Pamela Rice Hahn is the author of more than 20 published books.

Pam is also a graphics designer, comic strip creator, and songwriter.

Learn more about Pam by visiting her her personal Web site, the information about her cookbooks page, her CookingWithPam.com bio page and her books page.

Pam created chronic-illness.org because she herself copes with several disabling chronic illnesses and conditions: exercise-intolerant Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)*, Fibromalgia, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)**, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), arthritis, gout, and high blood pressure. In addition, Pam has balance problems stemming from a childhood fractured skull.

*Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is also known as Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.)

**Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) is also referred to as Environmental Illness (EI).