CFIDS Youth Coping Issues

Topics on this page:

• Coping with Life
• Essays By YPWCs
• Finding Support
• Coping with School
• Coping with Doctors
• Creative Writing
• Humor

Coping with Life

• "Back in the Swing" with Jill Griffin
• Coping With CFIDS: A Guidebook By and For Young People with CFIDS Compiled by Chelsea Berns, Jen Day, Lara Hardinge, Vanessa Matthews, Rebecca Moore, and Vicki Walker
• Coping Columns
  • The Coping Corner
  • VOICE!
  • The CFIDS Garden

• HOPE: From a YPWC By Dianna M. Banks
• Kids Coping with CFIDS: Children Explain What it's Like to Live with CFIDS by Lynn Vanderzalm
• Pace Yourself By Ingebjorg Midsem Dahl
• Should I Really Drive? by Connie Lynn Howard
• The Desperate Moments: Suicidal Thoughts by Sharon Walk
• Helping Hands: A Researcher and a Mother Help Others Learn to Help YPWCs by Vicki C. Walker
• The CFS-Y Prom: A Night of Enchantment and Dreams by Heather Frese
• Michelle Akers: An Olympic Athlete With CFIDS by Christy Record
• Declining Social Invitations Gracefully by Linda Miller Iger and Christy Record
• Pajama Party Plus - Where Girls Could be Girls, in Spite of CFIDS by Jennifer Rozines, Katie Foran & Beth Warren

• Risk and Resilience: Children and Youth with Disabilities from the Institute for Health and Disability at the University of Minnesota

Essays By YPWCs About Coping With CFIDS

• Katie Fuller "I Can't Remember a Time When I Didn't Have CFIDS"
• Sharon Walk "CFIDS Has Been A Challenge to Me"
• Jennifer Day "All I Want is Understanding"
• Lara Hardinge, Carrie Smith & Rachel Kanouse Teens Overcoming CFIDS, Together
• Michelle Akers: An Olympic Athlete With CFIDS by Christy Record
• Connie Howard "Thy Silence Shall Be No More"
• Heather Kaplan "Growing & Learning in My First Year With CFIDS"
• Sandy Becker "Things Remembered"
• Rebecca Moore "Four Years"
• Sandy Becker "Hard-Fought Battles and Little Girl Dreams"
• Katie Foran "Right Where I Am"
• Jake Parsons "Changing Negatives to Positives"

Finding Support

• Starting a Support Group for YPWCs and Parents by Linda Reveruzzi
• CFIDS Pen-Pals: My Best Friends by Ann McErlane

Coping with School

• Graduation Day by Rebecca C. Moore
• Back to School by Sandy Becker
• Energy Saving Tips for YPWC Students by Staci Stevens
• I'm Not Dead, I'm Just Homebound by Nichole Foster

Coping with Doctors

• Improving Communication Between Doctors and YPWCs by Sharon Walk

Creative Writing

• Poetry

Humor

• VOICE! by Heather Frese
• Top 10 Reasons YPWCs Look Forward to Going Back to School
• Top 10 Ways to Make Lobby Day Even More Interesting
• Top 10 Ways for YPWCs to Celebrate Valentine's Day