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SPOTLIGHT

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IBS Self Help and Support Group announces today in honor of IBS Awareness Month, that it is launching the book IBS Chat: Real Life Stories and Solutions, published by iUniverse Inc. and receiving iUniverse's Publisher’s Choice™ designation.  IBS Chat is co-authored by Jeffrey D. Roberts, M.S.Ed., President and Founder of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Self Help and Support Group and Dr. Barbara Bradley Bolen, Clinical Psychologist and author of the widely acclaimed Breaking the Bonds of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

IBS Chat: Real Life Stories and Solutions is a compilation of the best of the best posts to the Bulletin Board of the online Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Self Help and Support Group, (http://www.ibsgroup.org).  In an organized and easily accessible manner, IBS Chat offers a wealth of practical strategies for managing symptoms, information about a wide variety of treatment options, and insight into the effect that IBS can have on a person’s life.  Filled with advice, support, and reassurance, IBS Chat is an invaluable resource for anyone who suffers from this devastating intestinal disorder.

“Jeffrey Roberts and Dr. Barbara Bolen have done a remarkable job of compiling key comments, from all over the world, about IBS and the functional GI disorders. The information is well-organized, readable, and informative. I believe this book also helps to provide emotional support: the reader learns that he or she is “not alone” during those times when the symptoms are distressing or difficult to manage.” explains Dr. Douglas Drossman, Medical Director, UNC Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders.

Dr. Lin Chang, UCLA Department of Medicine - Division of Digestive Diseases commented, “This book provides very valuable insights from IBS sufferers that would be informative to other affected individuals and health care providers. I was most impressed by the communication between participants, who ranged from those wanting a better understanding about IBS and their symptoms, to those from very knowledgeable individuals. This level of social support between IBS sufferers can be very helpful in managing the symptoms of IBS.”

Through discussion of the realities of IBS and the effects of drugs, foods, exercises, and therapies, IBS Chat takes what is a complex disorder and offers comprehensive, enlightening, and most importantly, hopeful strategies for gaining control and improving quality of life.

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Thank you!

Jeffrey Roberts
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Founder