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    Chronic fatigue and masculinity

    Without working, how do you both get by financially? And have you found any other ways of mitigating that loss of manliness?
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    Chronic fatigue and masculinity

    After a rip-roaring start, seems this thread has immediately shut down! In an effort to see if it's worth reviving - has anyone found effective ways of mitigating CFS' effect on sense of masculinitty? Someone mentioned mindfulness - any other successful approaches?
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    Chronic fatigue and masculinity

    Thanks for your replies everyone. For now I've changed the title to this thread - let's see if there's an appetite for ongoing discussion for this, and maybe it could be turned into a sticky thread if there's ongoing appetite (and if that kind of thing is done on this forum). For me personally...
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    Chronic fatigue and masculinity

    Hi all, Firstly, let me say that I don't mean this post to be at all negative or divisive. I have Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), whose main symptom is chronic fatigue. I'm part of a POTS support group, but it's 95% women, and I find that one of the hardest things to deal with is the...