Mindfulness Could Be a Powerful Painkiller

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...1902/mindfulness-could-be-powerful-painkiller

Article doesn't mention CFS so far as I can see - just pain, mainly women.

Given IAPT in UK (and MUS etc stuff) I thought this might be of interest.

 

It must be good if it's as effective as something that has no evidence of being effective in any way, shape or form.

More seriously, obviously it's possible to ignore pain, up to a point, and for a limited duration. Having something physical to do whilst doing so can, in some situations, help with this. That doesn't mean the pain isn't still there and won't react badly to being ignored. It just means that other people see you doing something so assume the pain is gone or reduced.

 

It looks to me that mindfulness is the US preference over the CBT preferred by UK. Not from reading here just a general observation from everything I've come across so far.

And the writer is referring to a Meta-analysis as his guide. So . . .

https://www.meta-analysis.com/downloads/criticismsofmeta-analysis.pdf

ETA: and just for fun: https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/0...ews-and-meta-analyses-tell-us-a-flawed-story/

This one co-authored by George Davey-Smith: http://www.clinmed.rcpjournal.org/content/1/6/478

 

I just roll my eyes now when I hear or read the word mindfulness

 

Mindfulness is for pain-lite.

 

Based on this reviw:


Comparative evaluation of group-based mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment and management of chronic pain: A systematic review and network meta-analysis

https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/22/1/26

 

No energy to read the article.

I'm starting to think "experts' should have to live the treatments they give...
I'm sure they mean well but not long ago i dislocated a rib somehow while sleeping, my god was that painful, i'm sure if one of these doctors experienced that and were told mindfulness is the treatment they would have learned a painful lesson very quickly.

 

Any of the researchers volunteer to be subjected to pain and try to wish it off?

This basically feels like some snob billionaire scoffing at the poor and why they can't just buy more money? Live it down for a minute and you'll stop with this BS nonsense.

 

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?

 

Double-pinky swear?

It's weird that everyone in the field is aware of the crisis of replicability but just continues on their merry way as if it didn't matter. Surely, my research is fine and dandy.