I dont know how anyone COULD cope well with LC. It is terrible. Very few providers know ANYTHING about it and you cant get in to see the ones that do. I bet the patients who post here at this support grp. know MORE th an most providers. The anxiety and depression are hard to deal with. I dont know which one is worse. I made the decision a couple of weeks ago that instead of spending what little energy I have in continuing to try and see a provider such as the closest LC clinic( seattle) I will just manage it MYSELF. I am doing research on my own ( I have had to do this for ME/CFS for yrs. as I am a 46 yr. SURVIVOR of ME/CFS and Fibro. Reading medical journal articles that have been published joining this support group. I am feeling much better I think due to removing myself from a dysfunctional health care system and worthless providers who dont know anything about LC. I am still doing an obscene amount of bedrest but it helps. am sleeping much better and feeling less depressed and anxious. More like my old self. I dont know WHO that other patient was. Wierdest thing is that for the past almost 18 months I didnt even feel like ME. Anyone else feel that way? Not only feeling so incredibly sick and not able to get any medical help I felt like giving up. Since I am NOT someone who gives up I just made a different choice. Removing the stress from trying to get some medical help and just getting discouraged and frustrated with that has helped tremendously. I even now have my sense of humor back which I lost during the time that i have had LC. An less anxious and less depressed. Hang onto HOPE. HOPE got me thru 46 YRS. of Surviving ME/CFS and Fibro. It will get me thru this too.