While I understand your frustration as a writer myself, this blog’s intention is to provide a broad range of information and sources of that information. Rather than attempt to be the be-all and end-all to fibromyalgia information myself, I think I can provide value to the community by collecting news, information, and personal experiences and highlighting those things on my website. Most blogs quote other blogs often, and the usual citation is in the form of a link back attributing the content to the blogger who created it–as I did in my link at the beginning of this post. That makes for a mutually beneficial relationship: The content creator gets traffic from people who are interested and want to read the rest of the story, and the person quoting another blogger is able to provide information and suggest a resource to their readers. By quoting 50% or less of articles found on other sites, and including a link back, I can help to connect the fibromyalgia community and spotlight great sites.

However, if you would like me to delete this post rather than leave it up and continue to provide my readers with this information and provide you with traffic through my link, I’ll certainly do so.

–Admin

What is citation?
A “citation” is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source. It also gives your readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:
information about the author
the title of the work
the name and location of the company that published your copy of the source
the date your copy was published
the page numbers of the material you are borrowing
Why should I cite sources?
Giving credit to the original author by citing sources is the only way to use other people’s work without plagiarizing. But there are a number of other reasons to cite sources:
citations are extremely helpful to anyone who wants to find out more about your ideas and where they came from.
not all sources are good or right — your own ideas may often be more accurate or interesting than those of your sources. Proper citation will keep you from taking the rap for someone else’s bad ideas.
citing sources shows the amount of research you’ve done.
citing sources strengthens your work by lending outside support to your ideas.
Doesn’t citing sources make my work seem less original?
Not at all. On the contrary, citing sources actually helps your reader distinguish your ideas from those of your sources. This will actually emphasize the originality of your own work.
When do I need to cite?
Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you need to acknowledge their source. The following situations almost always require citation:
whenever you use quotes
whenever you paraphrase
whenever you use an idea that someone else has already expressed
whenever you make specific reference to the work of another
whenever someone else’s work has been critical in developing your own ideas.

I realize fully you can delete my “comment” but if plagiarism was not your intent, then you won’t delete it. And if you want to continue plagiarizing my blog AND my personal experiences, don’t think I will simply give up and disappear. I have alot more time than you do and of that, I am fairly sure. And there is always my blog of which I can use my own “freedom of the press”, although I will be plainly stating from where YOUR stuff came from, ” fibroandme.com”. I wonder what wordpress might think about this? I think I will ask them. Of course, you could do a little overhauling here and plainly state from where this post originally came from, in the beginning, so it is clearly obvious rather than with “here”…. if you did that, then you would give people the real place to find a few answers about my experience. Apparently information is not what this blog/website is truly about!

linda

The problem with these studies is that they don’t distinguish between garden-variety fatigue and actual CFS. The people who aren’t being helped (that is, the ones with CFS) drop out of the studies. The people who are helped stay in, and lo and behold, CBT is found to help everyone with fatigue.

I’m not knocking CBT as a form of talk therapy. If you have CFS and you want to see a therapist to cope with the realities of severe chronic pain and total exhaustion, then you might derive benefits. Same deal if you have cancer, or multiple sclerosis. But CBT will NOT help your symptoms, because they are organic, not psychosomatic.