Overcoming Chronic Fatigue 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques (Overcoming Books)

by Mary Burgess

Having extremely high personal standards and expectations of yourself, and feeling distressed if you are unable to meet them, may also form a block to recovery, which may lead to problems like the ones listed below: • trying to complete an activity in one go (e.g. writing an essay or painting a room) – this is likely to increase your feelings of exhaustion, which may then lead to you taking excessive rest); • not being able to relax properly, as you feel you ‘should’ be doing something ‘useful’; • avoiding new activities or not resuming previous activities for fear of not doing them well enough;