by Cort Johnson | May 23, 2019 | Coping, Finances, Homepage
Neglect is embedded in our history. It’s hard to have a conversation without someone mentioning the neglected funding, the doctors who don’t get it, the lack of treatments, the unheeding friends or family; i.e. the things we as a community don’t have... 
by Lori Madeira and Cort Johnson | May 1, 2019 | Coping, Homepage, Mindfulness
In the face of a chronic illness, our friends and family can resort to simple solutions: just try and be positive they might advise. Look on the bright side. Focus on what you can do. It’s not bad advice, but it often comes across as out of place and hurtful for... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 25, 2018 | Coping, Finances, Homepage
This is the second in a series of articles celebrating visionaries in the ME/CFS/FM community who have taken the actions to make their visions real … Sometimes we overlook the obvious. We know studies indicate that chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is probably... 
by Cort Johnson | Dec 7, 2018 | Advocacy, Coping, Homepage
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a terrible name. It’s such a terrible name that you have to give the people around you a little break. With that name, they’re almost doomed, at least at first, to think ME/CFS is a milquetoast kind of disease best suited to the... 
by Cort Johnson | Jun 12, 2018 | Cannabis, Coping, Cymbalta, Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia and Pain, Flexeril, Homepage, Lyrica, Mind/body, Opioid drugs
Daniel Clauw M.D. With 200 publications reaching back over twenty years Daniel Clauw is perhaps the most prolific fibromyalgia researcher of our time. He’s fought for many years to validate fibromyalgia as a real and serious illness. (For years the... 
by Cort Johnson | Feb 15, 2018 | Coping, Homepage, Mind/body
Beck Weathers came about as close to dying and still survive as is possible in the Death Zone of Mt. Everest. Left for dead three times, Weathers managed to claw his way to camp and eventually get down the mountain with the help of a miraculous helicopter rescue....
