"In my early years as a doctor, I thought it was my role to be positive, sometimes overly positive, with patients and their next of kin, reassuring them of a low likelihood of my worst suspicions being confirmed. Yet I started to find myself regretting what I had said, especially when a hunch...
Full title: When It Hurts, a Positive Attitude May Help. The Moderating Effect of Positive Affect on the Relationship Between Walking, Depression, and Symptoms in Women with Fibromyalgia
Abstract
Background: Increased exercise is a marker of health in fibromyalgia (FM). However, patients...
Merged thread - article discussed first
Abstract here
Came across this article in the telegraph reporting CBT and exercise improves fatigue in RA:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/28/arthritis-getting-positive-thinking-could-ease-symptoms/
It seems to be in connection to this paper...
Abstract
Positive psychology is the study of positive subjective experience and individual traits. Identifying deficits in positive psychology regarding fibromyalgia may inform targets for management. Therefore, the aim of the present case–control study was to compare the levels of positive...
Very good writing here….(cancer, not ME/CFS).
“Are you someone who enjoys the unsolicited opinions of strangers and acquaintances? If so, I can’t recommend cancer highly enough.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13634593211017187
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
“It’s not all nice and fun”: Narrating contested illness on YouTube and Instagram
Irene Groenevelt
First Published May 25, 2021 Research...
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