Fibromyalgia and our memories, our brains
” Our memory is in large part the starting point for how we think, how our preferences form, and how we make decisions”, Maria Konnikova Several weeks ago on CBC radio when I heard an interview with...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and over-exercising: no focused attention
“Besides focused attention, other factors that enhance neuroplasticity include aerobic exercise, novelty and emotional arousal”, Daniel J. Siegal I have been absent from writing on his site for over...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Trauma Memory
” Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised”, Steven Seagal It would seem that those...
View ArticleFibromyalgia…Personal Stories
“We can only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us”, Jean-Paul Sartre It isn’t often that I have the opportunity of sitting down for five hours...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and ear, dizziness and vertigo problems
“The ear is the avenue to the heart”, Voltaire Just as I thought I had experienced everything unusual with regard to this annoying, frustrating, challenging dis-ease, fibromyalgia, I developed another...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: the overmedicated ‘patient’
“America is one of the few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs, Robert Reich BigPharma makes huge profits from those of us suffering from chronic pain, fatigue,...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: Leg/Foot Pain
“What you resist, persists”, C.G.Yung I have brought on another pain attack- again! I have overdone it with social situations that have caused anxiety and resulted in overstimulation! This time the...
View ArticleFibromyalgia Pain Tracking
” People with chronic pain inevitably develop an intimate relationship with their pain”, Deborah Barrett The myriad of symptoms associated with fibromyalgia is vast, but chronic pain is among the most...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and overdoing it!
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress” , Frederick Douglass There is a tendency among those of us with chronic pain to be ever so watchful on days we are in pain or extremely fatigued. We...
View ArticleFibromyalgia – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Siblings-Twins?
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”, Gertrude Stein To write that I am frustrated, angry, and discouraged over the recent hoopla this week in the news...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: losses, yet hope
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Happy International Women’s Day! It is almost Easter and after the horrendous winter weather I (and thousands of...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Central Sensitization Transmission of Pain
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it”, Charlie Chaplin This is a review of the many blogs where I have discussed the pain discourse, keeping it simple and giving us...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and the brain
“Your brain is the command center of your body”, Daniel G.Amen There are about 100 billion neurons within the nervous system ; the neuron is the basic working unit of the human brain. Just imagine...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Nurses
“Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone”, Florence...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and unnecessary tests: more care is not better care
“He’s (sic) the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines”, Benjamin Franklin This is not a blog about doctor bashing. I have been so fortunate for many decades to have a physician...
View ArticleFibromyalgia, Alternative Therapies and the Bio-Psycho-Social
“People still insist on things like holistic healing and things that have no real basis in evidence because they want it to be true-it’s as simple as that”, Stephen Fry If there is any alternate...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and support/information groups
“The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all”, Helen Keller I have had two different experiences of being in a group of people where there has been a focus on chronic pain and in one...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go into permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment” , Judith Lewis Herman There has been a great deal of...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and Brain Fog: Stop, Breathe & Think
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud”, Virginia Woolf To live a life in a state of high anxiety, boarding...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: Strategies to Change the Brain
“One should sympathise with the colour , the beauty, the joy of life” , Oscar Wilde Changing the neural pathways in the brain from ruminating about pain or various other symptoms of fibromyalgia can be...
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