Letting go of the Dark holding on to the Light (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)

I’m what you might call a life-loving person. Happily married with a beautiful son, a job I adore – life couldn’t be more perfect. I wake up with a smile on my face every morning. Well, I use to. Don’t get me wrong, I still love my life. But my world has been turned upside down. I suffer from a disease called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Every day I wake up and I feel like I haven’t been asleep at all. So I stay in bed. In bed, the hours and minutes get shorter. The longer I stay asleep, the more exhausted I get. I have to physically force myself to get up. Up and out of my dark room. During the day I get so tired that I have to take naps. I get sever headaches and memory loss. It changes me as a person.

I first began to suffer from CFS during my first year at college although I didn’t realise it. It was the worst year of my life. I was a complete mess. I was constantly tired, sleeping on average 12 hours a day. Sometimes I was bed-bound for f...