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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by filipe[/i] [br]I’m rather young, i guess ;). I’m only 40, so I need someone older, or wiser to explain me what happened to psicossomatic medicine? I feel that today is almost, as if it is consider pseudo-medicine. What happen to medicine in general? I always heard philosophers saying sane mind in sane body… no they only focus on sane body... assholes!!!! When I first discovered John Sarno, I search on the net, and found people that call him a quack. There was people saying that what he was doing was offering placebo. But what is placebo? Most of the people like me, in the beginning, thought placebo was when someone gets the idea that he is cured, whe in fact he is still sick. They don’t accept the idea that someone can really be cured with the placebo effect. That is, that your body really heals itself. On the opposite side of the coin, people think that the nocebo effect, is when someone thinks he is sick when in fact is in perfect good health. They think that the nocibo doesn’t produce changes at the physical level. Most of my friends, and People in general think that the nervous system can have a negative impact on their health, but refuse to think it can create real diseases. They think it can worsen some symptoms, but can’t actually creat them. Why? Everytime I try to explain to someone the idea that their illiness is caused by psychosomatic factors, people feel offended. Why? My mother in law is always bragging herself of eating vegetables, and fruit from her own plantation, "with no chemicals", she said. But she doesn’t hesitate to take every pill she is prescribed, by his DR. She actually thinks that pills cure. And this happens with everybody I know. It also already happened with me. I use to carry a bag with every kind of pills, when I went on vacations, until 5 years ago. Today I started having those nasty stomach ache that plague me for so long, which made me go to Drs, doing all kind of exams, and taking loads of pills. When I realized that they had to do with my wife’s problem they immidiately seized. I only embraced john Sarno’s Theories as a last resort . I tried everything before, and got no relieve from my chronic pain. I went with John sarno because I don’t had any other alternative…and I wanted really to get my life on tracks again. And now I’m completely cured… and now I understand how our mind crates pain, and illness. I’m afraid that my wife’s breast surgery became like a psychossomatic scar, in her life. That is why I wanted so much to avoid it. I remember having 3 surgerys scheduled. Thanks to John Sarno, I skip everyone of them. I guess I was lucky to found it. Thanks, Filipe [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.