Understanding the body's need for balance can help make sense of how things go awry. We can manage acute stress, but when stress becomes chronic, our bodies may become imbalanced.

We expect modern medicine to be able to make sense of our health difficulties. What then, when it fails to do so for people living with ME/CFS and long covid?

I was pleased to see contributions from fellow psychologists and other health professionals with clinical and lived experience of long covid in The Psychologist in January. However, I also noted that some contributors made some quite startling claims about the condition.

Counselling Directory just published an article I wrote, offering five reasons working with a psychologist or therapist can be helpful for those living with ME/CFS or long covid.

I was more than a little dismayed to read an article by Monbiot about ME/CFS in The Guardian back in October 2024. In the piece, Monbiot makes a clearly well-intentioned appeal for people living with ME/CFS to receive greater recognition and support. Monbiot wrote about the tragic death of a young woman with ME/CFS, Maeve Boothby O’Neill. Naturally, I second his sentiments on this.