Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a kind of psychological training that helps you to better understand your condition and to arrange your life accordingly. If this does not sound like much, maybe some figures do better: in several large scale surveys more than half of CFS patients have confirmed that cognitive behavioral therapy led to a remarkable improvement of their symptoms.

Graded exercise therapy (GET) is basically a step-by-step fitness training where types and times of exercises are closely monitored and compared with the patient’s subjective exhaustion observations. GET is aimed at finding a daily physical fitness program for you exactly as hard as you can handle without aggravating the Fatigue Syndrome. Again large-scale patient surveys have shown that it works for most people and will result in a reduction of fatigue.

There are mixed results to be reported for different medications. CFS patients seem to react rather sensitive to most types of medication, especially of the sedative types. But still some people show improvements under treatment with anti depressants and so called immunomodulatory agents. These are substances, which either stimulate or suppress your immunity system or parts of it. Their prescription will be preceded by diagnostic analysis of your immune system’s parameters – if there are any irregularities found your doctor might try to improve your Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by modifying your immune system.

A very recent approach is by a leaf called Kratom. This leaf comes from mitragyna speciosa, a wild growing tree from the jungles of South East Asia. In its area of origin Kratom has long been used as a painkiller with strong stimulating properties, and as trials are still running, obviously a number of people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome find that the stimulating agents of Kratom are helping them to overcome their Fatigue symptoms.