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][1]], 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][2]__

___**San Jose Care Resource Guide: What about alternative medicine?**___

* **_Click here for a[ link to the Mayo Clinic on alternatives for CFS][3]_**
* _**Then there is this **[**study on the benefits of  CBSM **][4]**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**][5]

 

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