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...
With fibro and not ME, I don't worrying about showering. Usually. Though I have bouts of vertigo at the mere onset of a cold virus. But I do...
Also, thank the gods, the Sullivan pain-"research" PDF is old and, I hope, out-of-date.
As a fibro-person, I know I will be doing a bit of catastrophizing when I am in a severe flare-up. It's a normal response to extreme pain and...
I've been following Jared Younger's research for awhile now. One thing puzzles me: he has an undergraduate degree in psycology, a PhD in...
As a former RN (I only mention it because I took a research class) with moderate-severe fibromyalgia, I have to say that getting enough sleep is...
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