As a person with moderate to severe fibro, I thank you @rvallee for your vehement rebuttals. I cannot believe this airy fairy shite. Has Paltrow...
Yes, true. And these psychologists appear to have little interest/empathy with people in pain. I know that hearing about pain is unpleasant,...
And to further catastrophize about pain catastrophizing, here is the wikipedia entryg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_catastrophizing and...
Came across this article in Journal of Practical Pain Management...
Excited by this!
Not sure that anything definitive will come of this research, but it's worth a try. How to control variables that aren't in the treatment itself...
CBT= Could Be Tripe Do y'all have other meanings for this meaningless acronym?
One of the features of Major Depressive Disorder is a lack of movement. These patients stay in bed, stay at home. No big news, for sure.
I've experienced pain castastrophizing with fibro pain. During a severe flare up of pain, yes, pain dictates mood and the mood is rather extreme...
The pattern of cortisol secretion is altered in fibromyalgia. Normally it should be higher in the morning but in FMS, it's not. Certain cytokines...
Limitations of the study: participants have self-reported diagnoses (not confirmed by professionals). The study admits that self-report of...
Question the 11 week interval between the assays of cortisol and interleukins. Do individual subjects have the same levels of interleukins and...
I think this guy is suffering from functionally- low IQ disorder. And FLID is not a complex symptom. Sadly, only a diagnostic marker(s) for ME...
Maddening. May those psychs and shrinks or their loved ones get one of our illnesses. Then let's talk. Until then, trust what the patient says....
You're absolutely right. I got confused. I had assumed in the past that she was diagnosed with CFS, but that came from reading her (for years)...
Her articles are many and they are short and generic for the most part. Not very helpful.
Finding some cute little things to be grateful for, sure. Takes about a minute out of your day. How on earth does that spillover, have an effect...
My feeling about Kaiser Permanente (from being an RN and a later a member of Kaiser) is that they will espouse anything that saves them money and...
Very interesting! Could they be holding back the identity of specifics because of a possible patent on a diagnostic test kit in the future? Or too...
I can see how the idea of catastrophizing originated: a female patient with fibro, perhaps just recently diagnosed, with overwhelming symptoms of...
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