Modern Fatigue: You Can Recover and Stay Recovered
After more than a decade of prolonged, recurring, disabling fatigue, medical educator and professional health researcher Sue Besomo made a lasting recovery—thanks to surprising research findings from the broader mystery of health.
Unlike other books on fatigue, this one draws on research into spontaneous remission from terminal illness, prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, burnout culture, character medicine, and more. These discoveries offer real, lasting solutions for modern fatigue.
You really can recover and stay recovered from modern fatigue.
Combining science with memoir, Sue describes in each chapter how her own prolonged, recurring fatigue unfolded, and how, after years of searching, she eventually came across the research findings that enabled her recovery.
In this compact book, Sue presents concise, easy-to-follow, evidence-based solutions to arrest modern fatigue.
About Sue
Sue Besomo was born in Victoria, Australia. She completed registered nurse training at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, and later attended Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, where she was awarded two nursing research degrees. Sue has worked in acute clinical nursing, community nursing, and hospital staff development.
Following her broad experience in the field of nursing, and further study into burnout, compassion fatigue and behavioural science, Sue moved into academic work holding positions at Central Queensland University, Queensland University of Technology, and most recently in the medical school at Bond University, Queensland.
While this is her first book, she has also authored a chapter on burnout prevention for orthopaedic surgeons in Mercer’s Textbook of Orthopaedics and Trauma 10th edition. Sue lives with her husband in Queensland, Australia.
Nurse
The study of Character Medicine
I was first introduced to the idea of mind-body medicine in the ‘80s when a palliative care physician gave me a book to read: “Love, Medicine and Miracles” by Dr. Bernie Segal. The ideas in this book so appealed to me that they started me on a decades long quest to understand the mind-body connection to health and wellbeing.
Fast forward to about a decade ago when I found a medical textbook explaining Hippocratic medicine as ‘character medicine’ - that which was practiced and taught by Hippocrates.
Character medicine holds that when a person can step out of their conditioned character and into their true character, their health will improve. The notion that I was operating out of a conditioned character was both convincing and alarming!
The book I have just published, “Modern Fatigue” records some of my own quest to shift into my true character.
Artist
My first art lesson was taught by a nun at school who had previously worked as a designer for Claude Neon. Subsequently I attended a few workshops and am otherwise self-taught.
Painting is medicine for me. I can only paint things or people that I love or that speak of a personal truth.
Japanese rainforest Watercolour - (private collection) This one was painted because it made me feel connected to my son who lives in Japan.
The Rider Acrylic on canvas - (private collection) This was done for my cousin who made a significant contribution to raising the man in the painting.
Replica Ship Lady Nelson Acrylic on canvas - (private collection) This painting represents a time in my life when I felt tossed around in the turbulent waters of uncertainty..
