I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and working with patients around acceptance of pain.  Of course, we’re all at different stages along the path to acceptance.  Here’s someone who still has a way to go on the path of acceptance:

Acceptance frees up a whole lot of energy we can use to both help ourselves get […]

Usually I try to find an appropriate quote from somewhere on the web to match my posts.  But today, the quote I found on the very blog I’m featuring was so good, I’m using it instead.
“From pajamas to full recovery…”
 
That’s how Laura Bzowy describes her journey on CFS Squared: Tales of CFS.  CFS is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a rheumatologic disorder […]

Have fibromyalgia?  How many times have you been told:

it’s all in your head

you’re just complaining, exaggerating and whining
you’re really just depressed
you’re making it all up

or many other things that, one way or another, mean you really don’t have a disease??
Fibromyalgia is a rheumatologic disorder with pain, muscle aches and fatigue as symptoms.  What’s new is that more and […]

You find it hard to fit in a daily trip to the Himalayas to meditate with the yogis, but what’s a pain-sufferer to do to relax and de-stress?

Well, the StressEraser might be for you!  I tried this product and really liked it.
The StressEraser is a hi-tech, but easy-to-use gadget the size of a deck of cards to help you […]

Today continues my Friday series of what’s great out there on the web, both websites and blogs, for you to take a peek at.  You’re invited to send in your recommendations for favorite websites and blogs related to pain, along with why you like them, to Ask the Doctor, and I may use them for […]

Have you come to terms with your illness?  Have you accepted your chronic pain?
Psychologist Richard Lucas at Michigan State University studied whether people rebound from negative life events.  Previously it was thought that if you experience a negative life event - for example, divorce or unemployment - your level of happiness would come back to your baseline, after […]

Here are some of the funniest movies of all time, as voted by The American Film Institute.  What’s your favorite???  Commit to watching one this week and see if some of your pain is relieved.  My favorites are **starred**.

Tootsie (1982)
Annie Hall (1977)
Duck Soup (1933)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Graduate (1967)
Airplane! (1980)
The Producers (1968)
A Night at the Opera […]

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.  -Helen Keller

Today continues my Friday series of what’s great out there on the web, both websites and blogs, for you to take a peek at.  You’re invited to send in your recommendations for favorite websites and blogs related to […]

Imagine you’re a POW… how would you cope with that stress?  What skills and personality characteristics would help you survive?  What attitudes would help you go through that, but avoid anxiety, depression or PTSD?

Two psychiatrists, Dennis Charney at Mt. Sinai and Steven Southwich at Yale, looked at extremely stressful situations - being a POW or experiencing physical and sexual […]

Heal your plantar fasciitis heel pain, that is, so you can have happy feet again!

I wrote here about plantar fasciitis a few weeks ago. Plantar fasciitis (PF) is inflammation of the fibrous tissue on the bottom of your feet, which I suffer from. A bothersome pain, and it can take a long time to heal.
A […]