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I can and have (yesterday in 13 degree C induced pain) cheerleaded myself through some tough pain moments. "Don't focus on it." "You'll be home soon and can get heat to the area, rest, take meds." I would submit that every pain patient already employs CBT cheerleading to herself. Sure, there...

Friend of mine (ex-friend really) has ulcerative colitis (belongs to the chronic inflammatory, crohn's family). Her risk of bowel cancer is 37x normal. She has immune attacks on leg vessels, random, who-knows-where next attacks. So, not well controlled. Also has scar tissue in rectal area which...

I wouldn't want mindfulness completely divorced from its religious/philosophical underpinning. As Dr. Farhad Dalal points out in his critiques of Mindfulness Based CBT, that it is being used to try to prevent PTSD in American soldiers. In other words, who gives a toss about the Buddhist...

Watched most of it. I want to visit the CBT and Mindfulness-Based CBT studies in pain reduction to learn how to dissect them. I am somewhat fearful of the intersect of CBT and MB-CBT for pain reduction for sufferers taking opiods for pain (such as myself). Thanks for this!

Just one more thing. On the second page of this is an instrument used to measure the degree of catastrophizing. (On the first page is the Widespread Pain Index (used in fibromyalgia research as an instrument to remove those patients with low widespread pain index scores from the diagnosis of...

Mexican researchers studied this drug. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10067-017-3664-z Recent article here: https://fibromyalgianewstoday.com/2017/05/08/ambroxol-shows-potential-for-managing-fibromyalgia-pain-pilot-study/

"They should just shut up." Love that. Because I worked as a nurse and a tad in research, I tend to overlook glaring fissures in researchers' work. Not any more. And as my son said, "Psychology isn't science."

The researcher probably is talking to venture capitalists/big and little pharma.

Well, I don't fit that profile. A lot of studies are done at tertiary levels (hospital-based programs which attracts the most complicated "emotional" cases).

This blog from Scienfic American is written by a Stanford psychologist who has been researching pain catastrophizing (PC). I think she is a major voice in the PC field. I don't see in any of her research an attempt to categorize pain levels as well as consider additional brain problems (fatigue...

Group mindfulness for chronic pain sufferers. How did they filter out groupthink and social pressure to respond (also to please the researcher) that their pain lessened?

Mindfulness is for pain-lite.

I finally get your points about the difficulty of diagnosing what may or may not be a discrete set of symptoms, of what is termed fibromyalgia or myofacial pain syndrome, whatever that is...

I do believe you and Dr. Wolfe are dead-wrong about there not being a fibrositis diagnosis (updated to fibromyalgia). It is a constellation of symptoms, severe symptoms, and yes, there is overlap with autoimmune diseases as well. In my case, non-specific autoimmune disease with secondary...

The problem IS that the body is not "adapting" (whatever that is). It is not self-correcting in ME nor fibromyaglia. That's the problem. Not the patient. The illness is the problem.

Sounds like my dog wrote this.

And Michael Hyland, et al, are at a dangerously low point in an IQ range of normal. My god, who gave this a green light? Why not invite aliens to venture a theory or two.

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 et Goop wandered into AI wellness theorizing?

Yes, true. And these psychologists appear to have little interest/empathy with people in pain. I know that hearing about pain is unpleasant, drives folks away. All I can say is it isn't helpful to people in pain.

And to further catastrophize about pain catastrophizing, here is the wikipedia entryg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_catastrophizing and interestingly it states: "However, we cannot yet rule out the possibility that at least some aspects of catastrophization may actually be the product of...