Circle of Madness: Chronic Illness and Anger

I was thinking about the interconnectedness of mind, body and spirit, and wondered about the relationship between fibromyalgia (or other chronic pain conditions) and anger. Here are some findings: Anger causes pain to increase Over 40 years ago, a study looking at anger with respect to pain and other symptoms of illness found that people…

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The End of a Nonsensical Debate: Fibromalgia Is Real

What are the arguments against, and in favor, of fibromyalgia being a “real disease?” I’m not sure whether this question is trying to get at the difference between “disease” and “syndrome”, or whether it’s an attempt to distinguish between psychogenic and somatogenic illness, or whether it’s about finding arguments in support of the theory that people with fibromyalgia…

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