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Implications of forgiveness enhancement in patients with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Toussaint, Loren, Overvold-Ronningen, Mary, Vincent, Ann et al.·Journal of health care chaplaincy·2010
This review examines whether learning to forgive—others and ourselves—might help people with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia cope better with the anger, stress, fear, and depression that often come with these conditions. The authors suggest that forgiveness could be a helpful complementary approach, alongside other treatments, to reduce the emotional burden of living with these chronic illnesses. They propose a model to guide future research on how forgiveness might improve well-being in these patient populations.