taniaaust1
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From Wendy Turners website:
Anxiety and stress can be an unwelcome gremlin in your life and can cause all manner of frustration and difficulties. If you suffer from anxiety yourself, I'm sure you will agree with me.
You may suffer with:
Stressful/disturbed sleep
Frequent tiredness
Lethargy
Constant feeling of adrenaline
and perhaps many other things that I've not mentioned here.
By working with me, some of the wonderful changes you can expect are:
Greater confidence in yourself
Refreshing sleep
Sounds like no awareness of the sleep issues of ME/CFS.
Wendy.. I have many different sleep issues with the ME/CFS (many ME/CFS patients dont have simple insomnia like many depressed patients do) but the main one I have which screws up my sleep is due to it is a severe circadian rhythm disorder in which the hormonal cycles in the body are all screwed up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome
"It is responsible for 710% of patient complaints of chronic insomnia.[4] However, as few doctors are aware of it, it often goes untreated or is treated inappropriately; DSPS is often misdiagnosed as primary insomnia or as a psychiatric condition.[5] "
DSPS needs to be treated with light therapy and melatonin and isnt treated like the more normal kind of insomina at all, the normal insomina treatments arent recommended for that disorder and actually dont work well at all on this disorder.
The prevalence is "About 0.15% of adults, three in 2,000, have DSPS. " .. Seeing I have it as part of my ME as just one of its many symptoms, I bet a large number of ME patients also have the disorder so that is a false promise you are making there to say you can expect a change in sleep. (unless you can make ones body start producting melatonin and get the other hormones right.. I personally dont think you are going to be able to fix this kind of insomina)
"Constant feeling of adrenaline"
Id like to say it isnt just a feeling but our adrenaline is often actually sky high. My adrenaline was so high that they dismissed my first three urine tests as they didnt believe the results. Mine is sky high even when Im going throu a very calm time with no stimulation. Not sure how you would fix issue with the actual body itself (rather then the mind) causing excess adrenaline.