Chemical Sensitivity or Breathing

Chemical Sensitivity: A Guide to Coping with Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Sick Building Syndrome and Other Environmental Illnesses

Author: Bonnye L Matthews

This book, written from a patient's perspective, first defines chemical sensitivity, then describes its effects, and discusses strategies for dealing with it. A complete resource listing, information on documenting a case, expert opinions on CS and an examination of the issues are included. An appendix provides detoxification data.

Michael Rogers - Library Journal

Matthews's 1992 study covers chemical sensitivity from the patient's perspective, first defining it, then cataloging the effects and the means to deal with it.

Booknews

Matthews developed chemical sensitivity from work-related, chronic, low-level toxic exposure, and shares with other sufferers her experiences and the strategies and resources she found to cope with it. Includes a bibliography of over 800 entries, and a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	What Is Chemical Sensitivity?	1
	A Basic Introduction to CS	4
	A Medical Overview of CS	12
	Is CS Psychosomatic?	35
2	What It's Like to Have Chemical Sensitivity	39
	Experience During Disease Development	39
	Experience After Disease Development	42
	The Problem Patient with a Persistent Problem, Treated by Problem Physicians and Surrounded by Problem People	47
3	Coping with Chemical Sensitivity	71
	Physician and Patient Decisions Regarding Exposure	72
	Patient Education	74
	General Coping Strategies	77
	Warning	98
4	Resources for the Chemical Sensitive	101
	Legal Counsel	101
	Financial Resources	102
	Medical Resources	107
	Advocacy and Support Groups	108
	Information on Chemicals	110
	Government Agencies	112
	Legislators	113
5	Documenting the Chemical Sensitive's Case	115
	Initial Phase	116
	Filing the Initial Claim	122
	Workers' Compensation	130
	Additional Documentation	137
6	Society and the Chemical Sensitive	141
	Issues in Chemical Sensitivity	141
	Where Do We Go from Here?	147
	Appendix A: Charts from Chapter 1	151
	Appendix B: Detoxification	155
	Appendix C: Opinions of Experts	159
	Appendix D: Toxic Carpet Solution	181
	Glossary	185
	Bibliography	191
	Index	271

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Breathing: Expanding Your Power and Energy

Author: Michael Sky

Long used by meditators as a way to inner peace, health, and vitality, intentional breathing can also be used as a calming technique when encountering stress, pain, and fear. In Breathing, Michael Sky offers simple breathing exercises that are intended to be experienced as they are read. He discusses breath, the central organizing life force, as it relates to emotional responses, lifetime habits, sleep, childbirth, sexual communion, and higher consciousness.