Expressing emotions, rejection sensitivity, and attachment in patients with fibromyalgia 2023 Puşuroğlu et al

Objectives: This study aimed to examine emotional awareness, control of emotions, and the childhood attachment process in fibromyalgia patients.

Patients and methods: The observational study was conducted with 117 participants (14 males, 103 females; mean age: 43.9±9.0 years; range, 22 to 64 years) between February 20, 2022, and May 20, 2022. Sixty-one patients and 56 healthy control subjects filled out a form including sociodemographic data, such as age, sex, occupation, and educational status. In addition, the participants answered the Expressing Emotions Scale, Rejection Sensitivity Scale, and Experiences in Close Relationships Scale.

Results: In our study, Expressing Emotions Scale scores are significantly higher in the healthy control group than in the patient group (p<0.05). Rejection Sensitivity Scale scores are significantly higher in the patient group than in the healthy control group (p<0.05). In the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale, a significant difference was determined between the patient and control groups in the avoidant attachment subdimension (p<0.05). Similarly, a significant difference was observed between both groups in terms of the anxiety attachment subdimension (p<0.05).

Conclusion: The ability to express emotions is lower and avoidant and anxious attachment rates are higher in fibromyalgia patients.

PubMed abstract, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37674789/
Open access (PDF), https://www.ftrdergisi.com/uploads/pdf/pdf_4455.pdf

 

There is an enormous need to educate society about how physical illness causes emotional and social dysfunction.

There are so many ways that an illness can harm the social sphere of one's life. To make one example, patients that are too fatigued to meet other people, or properly engage in a conversation and form an emotional connection, will probably experience a degradation of their social and emotional function.

Illnesses like fibromyalgia are also disrespected and abandoned by society and face widespread negative attitudes, which means that patients might find it harder to open up to others.

 

No comment.

 

It has crossed my mind a few times that doctors must be being taught that humans should be happy when they are ill or in recovery from illness. And if they aren't happy being ill or in recovery this is one of the major signs of mental illness.

And for some unfathomable reason they appear to believe it 100%.

 

I'm sorry but that study is just psychology research porn (in my view). The more of it is funded and published the more of it is generated.