Fibromyalgia, my unquiet mind
” The mind is the most capricious of insects-flitting, fluttering”, Virginia Woolf Sit quietly for a minute and imagine this stream with leaves quietly floating by in the water. Now…
Fibromyalgia- Conversion Disorder?
“We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering”, Peter A. Levine Dr. Levine is the world’s leading expert on the study of…
Living with fibromyalgia and heart disease
“Coping with a chronic illness is work”, Carolyn Thomas A very new book has just been published by Carolyn Thomas: A Woman’s Guide to Living with Heart Disease, Baltimore: Johns…
AFFLICTED…Netflix documentary reviewed
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear”, Mark Twain I have watched all episodes of the documentary Afflicted on Netflix. My mind is reeling and…
Fibromyalgia fears and Covid19
“How little can be done under the spirit of fear”, Florence Nightingale Fear of catching the virus, of giving it to others, of being around others, of going out in…
A pandemic and fibromyalgia
” Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow” Albert Einstein I apologize to my dear ‘old’ readers of the past for not writing blogs for many, many months.…
Fibromyalgia is a malfunctioning of the central nervous system
“Do something every day that scares you”, Eleanor Roosevelt I have had a difficult year, even being admitted to the hospital for several days with extremely high blood pressure. Now…
Nurses and Fibromyalgia
” The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel”, Florence Nightingale A dreidel is…
Fibromyalgia: ANXIETY- PANIC ATTACKS
” PTSD is similar to Panic Attacks in that once turned on, the anxiety is fed into a vicious cycle”, David Yeung Anxiety, depression, and panic attacks are triplets. They live together…
Is Fibromyalgia a ‘Psychosomatic’ Disorder?
” Trust one who has gone through it”, Virgil Writing those words is psychosomatic, in fact, even thinking about the title makes me feel uncomfortable! Who wants to be labeled as one…