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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...

Came across this article in Journal of Practical Pain Management https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/treatments/psychological/pain-catastrophizing-what-practitioners-need-know Very fuzzy non-definition of what pain catastrophizing might be. Of course, the so-called professional (a health...

Excited by this!

Not sure that anything definitive will come of this research, but it's worth a try. How to control variables that aren't in the treatment itself (life events, seasonal changes, etc.). Will they be looking at people who have had every available treatment and for whom nothing has worked? They are...

CBT= Could Be Tripe Do y'all have other meanings for this meaningless acronym?

One of the features of Major Depressive Disorder is a lack of movement. These patients stay in bed, stay at home. No big news, for sure.

I've experienced pain castastrophizing with fibro pain. During a severe flare up of pain, yes, pain dictates mood and the mood is rather extreme due to the pain being extreme. But my mood brightens when the pain lessens and mood returns to baseline when the flare resolves (though a residual...

The pattern of cortisol secretion is altered in fibromyalgia. Normally it should be higher in the morning but in FMS, it's not. Certain cytokines are pro-inflammatory; others are anti-inflammatory (ILs 4, 10, 13). But the whole premise is sketchy.