Positive and negative affect mediate the ... relationship between emotional processing and symptom severity ... in IBS, 2018, Moss-Morris et al.

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Positive and negative affect mediate the bidirectional relationship between emotional processing and symptom severity and impact in irritable bowel syndrome

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Abstract
Introduction
Individuals with IBS report higher levels of psychological distress compared to healthy controls. Distress has been associated with emotional processing difficulties but studies have not explored how the relationship between distress and emotional processing affects IBS. There is little research on the role of positive affect (PA) in IBS."

eta:http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(17)30919-4/fulltext


No idea what they are trying to 'prove' here.
 
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Can't and don't want to access the full paper. I can see it's crap from the abstract. Entirely based on the assumption that IBS is a psychosomatic condition, hence publication in that lurid pink journal.

Here's how they summarise it:

Highlights
•Distress mediated the relationship between emotional processing difficulties and IBS severity.
  • •Emotional processing difficulties seemed to affect IBS severity via the reduction of positive affect.
  • •The alternate models were valid, suggesting a two-way relationship between emotional processing and IBS through affect.
  • •Addressing the expression of emotions may enhance existing evidenced based IBS interventions.
  • •Interventions targeting PA may promote self-management in IBS.
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Had to look up 'positive affect'. Here's what my friend the internet told me:

''Positive affect refers to the extent to which an individual subjectively experiences positive moods such as joy, interest, and alertness.

People with psychological disorders may display variations in their affect. A restricted or constricted affect describes a mild restriction in the range or intensity of display of feelings. As the reduction in display of emotion becomes more severe, the term blunted affect may be applied.''
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My translation of this paper:

We think IBS is a psychosomatic condition, which is great because it provides more work for us, and we can mess with lots more people's heads and tell them if they think happy thoughts their IBS will improve, although it might be the IBS that's making them unhappy in the first place, we don't really know what we're talking about, but when did that ever stop us pontificating.
 
My “ ibs” went into a brief remission after Xiafaxamin. It came back. After leaving my moldy house and possessions behind I no longer have “ ibs” . I had ibs for about 30 years. I think in my case it is sensitivity to my environment nothing to do with emotional issues which was rammed down my throat.
 
Individuals with IBS report higher levels of psychological distress compared to healthy controls.
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If we can just refer to all symptoms of any physical illness as psychological distress then all conditions are psychological and not physical.

To these idiots the word symptom does not exist so it makes one wonder what they think of any presentation of any illness.

Is throwing up from food poisoning "psychological distress"?
Is shouting out when someones kicks you on the shin "psychological distress"?
Is bleeding from a cut "psychological distress"?
When a boxer gets knocked out by a punch to the head is that psychological distress"?

Saying ouch to pain is "psychological distress" therefore the cause of the pain is saying ouch after the pain occurred.

I really wonder if these idiots really understand the meaning of the word symptoms or they just pretend they dont.
 
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Trish said:
My translation of this paper:

We think IBS is a psychosomatic condition, which is great because it provides more work for us, and we can mess with lots more people's heads and tell them if they think happy thoughts their IBS will improve, although it might be the IBS that's making them unhappy in the first place, we don't really know what we're talking about, but when did that ever stop us pontificating.
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My translation of the paper:

Shit happens.
 
I'm not sure of the protocols here but I didn't want to start a new thread with this because it's just more of the same faulty thinking approach - and it might have already been posted, although I can't see it anywhere. It is a report from the World Congress of Gastroenterology, October 2017.

The new twist is that "four 1-hour sessions of internet-based, self-administered therapy" seem to work better for IBS than "10 sessions of standard psychiatrist- or psychologist-led therapy, or four sessions of education only ... These findings — which received an American College of Gastroenterology Governors Award for Excellence in Clinical Research — suggest that home-based treatments could be used to relieve chronic constipation, diarrhea, bloating, gas, and other IBS symptoms in more patients without increasing clinician time or the use of healthcare resources."

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticl...&uac=69945CY&spon=17&impID=1540949&faf=1#vp_1
 
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