Tag: stress illness

  • Your Chronic Pain Library

    Gotten through The Mindbody Prescription and the other titles listed on this site’s pain page?  Here’s another to consider–some like it better than the rest:  Get Rid of the Pain in Your Butt Now! by Monte Hueftle. Hueftle, a TMS Coach and Hypnotherapist, has also put together a full TMS course, The Master Practice, available through his website,…

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  • The Future v. Fibromyalgia

    From PsychCentral: Cell Phone Therapy for Fibromyalgia.  Virtual reality and accelerometers! Background: Fibromyalgia is a complex and chronic pain syndrome which causes generalized pain and deep exhaustion, among other symptoms. It is a serious public health problem, more usual among adult women, and causes significant negative psychological effects. In fact, 35 percent of affected patients suffer…

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  • Singing Away IBS

    Study:  Irritable Bowel Syndrome felled by song. Previous studies have demonstrated the beneficial psychological and biological effects of singing, with associated feelings of relaxation, energy and joy. An inter-university Swedish study has set out to test whether there were any additional stress-related benefits from choir singing in comparison with other group activities… (Via GoodTherapy.org.)

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  • Journaling and Chronic Pain

    A new page on the TMS Wiki details various approaches to journaling. They’re up there to help people with chronic pain, but journaling can be a big help to just about anyone.  Among the approaches on the page: List Making, Spider Writing, Free Writing, Unsent Letters, and Dialogue. Several workbooks, which’ll help you through the…

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  • Stopping Pain Without Drugs

    Here’s a quick interview with Dr. Vijay Vad, author of “Stop Pain.”  He suggests exercise for chronic pain.  Not quite on the stress illness bandwagon, but in its neighborhood: I have seen a big explosion in chronic back pain and arthritis, and what I realized is that people have very limited self-help options. In the…

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