Reviews

Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness by Paul J. Donoghue, Mary E. Seigel

tamarina's review against another edition

4.0

Really liked this book, helped me a lot. I miss one thing though: that the mental challenges of being physically ill can and do often also have a physical cause.

abirdwithnowisdom's review against another edition

2.5

If you're completely knew to chronic illness, then this book might help you. It goes into the basics, like "this is what a chronic illness is" and "here's how family members might respond." I'm no stranger to chronic illness, so to be honest this book was a bore with nothing new to me.

ghostbird's review against another edition

4.0

This book was pretty good. The first section went over what an Invisible Chronic Illness is with examples and anecdotes, and how it affects someone not only physically but socially and psychologically. The second section is about learning to cope with chronic illness. I found it very helpful and even took some notes. It reflected some of what I have been learning lately in talk therapy, such as confronting irrational thoughts and learning better ways of communicating your feelings and listening to others feelings. The end of the book includes reading lists and contact information for various associations related to the chronic illnesses in the book.

This was first published in 1992, with an introduction added in 2000 so some of the information and contacts may be out of date. I noticed a lot of the books on the reading lists were older as well. Also, there is a slight Christian/religious slant to some of the sections which I found a bit out of place, but it wasn't very overwhelming and was easy to ignore for someone who isn't Christian or religious.