Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Study Shows Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management improves stress, quality of life, and symptoms of CFS
San Jose Care Resource Guide: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is not well undrerstood and it’s causes are unclear. Recent work has tried to tie it to a retrovirus [MediNewsDigest], but the the linkage is not necessarily causal.
San Jose Care Resource Guide: So what is one to do? Some drugs are used but they are not necessarily FDA approved for that purpose . Click hear ffor a link to Adienne Dellwo’s article on the CFS drugs
San Jose Care Resource Guide: What about alternative medicine?
- Click here for a link to the Mayo Clinic on alternatives for CFS
- Then there is this study on the benefits of CBSM or ”Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management”. This study was published in the Journal of psychosomatic research
- Conclusions of this study are positive, quoting: “…Results suggest that CBSM is beneficial for managing distress, improving quality of life, and alleviating CFS symptom severity…’
- But what is “Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management”. Here is a helpful introduction lecture video by Dr Jason Satterfield, UCSF, on Youtube/UCtelevision
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Categories: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Tags: CBSM, CBST, CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, cognitive behavioral stress management, effects on, Quality of Life, Stress, symptoms
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