Working with a psychic, she focuses on overcoming some childhood experiences that may be holding her back.
Some of Rehmeyer's other treatment strategies are even farther off the mainstream medical path. Identifying one of her issues as a hypersensitivity to mold, she follows the lead of some patient activists, including “Mold Warrior” Erik Johnson, and the result is significant improvement in her overall health. At first skeptical of the DIY approach of many longtime Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients, she comes to take the strategies and suggestions found on message boards and in Facebook groups more seriously. One of the most fascinating parts of the book is Rehmeyer's interaction with online patient communities. Nancy Klimas, head of the Neuroimmune Institute) as well as with other health providers from physical therapists to psychotherapists. Rehmeyer's book Through the Shadowlands follows her journey through debilitating illness to a stronger, more stable life she describes as “relatively good health.” Along the way, Rehmeyer consults with leading mainstream experts on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and associated medical issues (for example, Dr. A catchall diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome didn't help Rehmeyer or her doctors get her back to functioning, so the mathematician, researcher, and science writer began the hunt for her own solutions.
Her symptoms were dismissed by some doctors, described by others as psychosomatic, and written off as “untreatable” by others. Over the course of a few short years, Julie Rehmeyer went from being an active outdoorswoman who loved to hike, and who had hand-built much of her New Mexico home, to a life of low energy, foggy-headedness, frailty, and occasional paralysis.
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