The ME/CFS Society of NSW Inc.

The Society created this brochure in response to a number of clients' experiences in the hospital system. It outlines major symptoms of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, explains ways that a medical setting can be detrimental to a patient's health, and suggests ways that health professionals can make a patient's time in hospital more comfortable.

Please feel free to print and distribute this brochure as required. If you want a large number, contact the Society for more information.

General Benefits of Massage

• There is evidence of physical, psychological and physiological benefits of massage.
• Physical contact with skin and muscle and fascia can loosen and soften stiff muscles.
• Massage may improve the immune system.
• Massage can assist the body to release certain chemicals to help with relaxation, improve blood circulation and get rid of toxic substances which build up in our bodies and muscles as they work.

by Jana Fleming

How easy it is to listen but how hard it is to hear.

How often do we miss hearing what we need to, just because we don’t know how to listen? I know I have, often. Much of my illness has been about learning how to listen. Listen to my body, my mind, my spirit and most of all myself. How often did you miss hearing what ‘you’ were actually saying because the noise around you was so much louder? That noise might be family, friends, doctors, all with valid things to say but if all you hear is them then what about you? What about your voice?