Psychology Today blog platform: "It's All in Your Head - The relationship between contested illnesses and psychiatric illnesses"

I have a degree in biology and a lifelong fascination with the subject which means I have read widely but becoming more severely affected and family problems means I may have missed some new findings.

I was under the impression that healing from surgery took at least a year for one thing with nerves being the last thing to mend. The common knowledge after a hysterectomy was that about a year later you would experience a resurgence of pain (maybe mild but even so) as the nerves finally knitted together.

Also they discovered pain gates so pain relief was increased after operations so that they would not be opened as once they were the pain was experienced as worse.

Then I read that they had found that nerves could regenerate in such a way that it was like the difference between your arm and your fingers. What had once been a strong single fibre now became a bunch of smaller fibres but each could carry a signal so the pain was more intense.

Also adhesions causing pain as well.

Have these things been discredited ot forgotten? They make a nonsense of chronic pain being in the mind.

 

James Coyne tweets his opinion.

 

I just noticed the name of the authors' blog is "Denying to the grave". And irony died once again. I don't think I've ever read any attempt from ME deniers at explaining why so many ME patients die. It's as if those simply ceased to exist, erased from memory.

As usual, "skeptics" are some of the most gullible people out there about the MAGICAL POWER OF THE MIND, incapable of basic self-reflection.