Developing fibromyalgia as a child
“Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves”, Susan Forward Recently a commentator on one of the blogs wanted more of my personal...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and the highly empathetic/ highly sensitive person
” Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods”, Anthon St. Marten St. Marten writes that to feel intensely is “the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate”....
View ArticleFibromyalgia and its Siblings: Symptoms, Symptoms, Symptoms!
” Trying to eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there’s more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating...
View ArticleFibromyalgia is an anxiety disorder
” People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger”, David D. Burns Everyone worries, it falls under the umbrella of anxiety. It is...
View ArticleMY ‘NEW’ BOOK ON FIBROMYALGIA!
I haven’t been writing more blogs of late as I am working on publishing a book from most of my previous blogs. Included in this book will be numerous comments from my readers which have been...
View ArticleNurses and Fibromyalgia
” The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel” , Florence Nightingale A dreidel is a four-sided spinning top. I...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: ANXIETY- PANIC ATTACKS
” PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle”, David Yeung Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are triplets. They live together and feed on one...
View ArticleAnxiety and Mindfulness: Relevance to Fibromyalgia
” Anxiety can come over you without any event or stimulation triggering it”, Andrew Safer Thank you to Andrew for permission to use his cover page for this blog. Cover design: Sarah Hansen. Yesterday I...
View ArticleSara Corning: A Brave Humanitarian Nurse
“She learned to Serve Others”, headstone of Sara Corning My dear Readers: Now it has been 11 years of writing almost monthly blogs about fibromyalgia and attending to the stories about people who are...
View ArticleMirror therapy and fibromyalgia
” IT’S NOT THAT I’M SO SMART, IT’S JUST THAT I STAY WITH PROBLEMS LONGER” Albert Einstein And so, I began yet another journey with a therapy that I had not used before- ‘mirror therapy’. My...
View ArticleAFFLICTED…Netflix documentary reviewed
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”,Mark Twain I have watched all episodes of the documentary Afflicted on Netflix. My mind is reeling and disturbed. I am hoping that...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: pink palms, smooth feet
” The biology of pain is never straightforward, even when it appears to be”, Lorimer Moseley I thought I knew it all: fibromyalgia is a constant hyper-arousal of the central nervous system and all the...
View ArticleFibromyalgia is a malfunctioning of the central nervous system
“Do something everyday that scares you”, Eleanor Roosevelt I have had a difficult year, even being admitted to hospital for several days with extremely high blood pressure. Now that I’ve settled down...
View ArticleA pandemic and fibromyalgia
” Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow” Albert Einstein I apologize to my dear ‘old’ readers of the past for not writing blogs for many,many months. I do hope that some of you are...
View ArticleFibromyalgia fears and Covid19
“How little can be done under the spirit of fear”, Florence Nightingale Fear of catching the virus, of giving it to others, of being around others, of going out in public and of wearing or not wearing...
View ArticleFibromyalgia and the many faces of Covid
Headaches, sniffles, dry cough, watery eyes, aches all over, sometimes lack of concentration: Covid19? Fibromyalgia? Have you ever seen the advertisements for medications that cite side effects? I...
View ArticleMy new book!
The new book (iUniverse, publishing, 2022) is called Fibromyalgia: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Dis-ease. In many respects it is a sequel to the first about women and fibromyalgia (2007) but it is...
View ArticleFibromyalgia: a biopsychosocial phenomenon
“Trauma’s imprint is more endemic than we realize”, Gabor Mate’ Self image is important to happiness. I have been struck of late about the ways in which women (in particular) feel diminished by the...
View ArticleFibromyalgia began in Developmental Years
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion” Aldous Huxley It is interesting to look at the similar patterns of thinking...
View ArticleRoot cause of the psychological aspect of fibromyalgia
“Its not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”, Henry David Thoreau Several decades ago before I knew much about this demon called fibromyalgia, I diagnosed myself ahead of the long...
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