A new life is possible
Twice in my life I experienced a “miracle” cure. These two are why I became a mental health counselor almost two decades ago, i.e. I wanted to share what I had learned with others who suffer. The first cure, in my 20s, was from a decade of weekly debilitating migraine, and the other, at 50, was from lifelong chronic fatigue syndrome which allowed me to go back to school to become a counselor. If you have either or both of these issues, let’s talk!—MR
A catalogue of losses: what chronic fatigue syndrome took away from my life
by Mike Mariani, The Guardian US, November 28, 2022
Whether anybody else could see it or not, I had lost someone: my former, healthy self. On Friday, 14 December 2012, I would experience the sudden onset of an illness that, looking back almost a decade later, bears a powerful resemblance to the narratives of those suffering from long Covid.
