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HilaryN
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 Posted - 06/21/2009 : 09:31:24
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Oh, I'd never heard that term before - I thought you'd made it up. Thanks for introducing me to it, anyhow.
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Hillbilly
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 11:41:25
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My lingering fear is that I've overloaded my nervous system to the point of no return. I fear there is a permanent damage there which makes it so rare to see someone fully recover from Fibromyalgia like symptoms.
This, of course, is nonsense, but I can say that without hesitation because I have proven it false in my own experience. You must do it in yours. I would like to point you to the writings of Dr. Abraham Low. Back in the 1940's and 50's he worked with thousands of patients both with "diagnosable" mental defects, and plain old garden variety nervous patients. I recall reading in one of the books about a man who was so overwhelmed by nervous stirrings when he went to wait on a train that he had lived in a cocoon of sorts for 20 years. Dr. Low obliterates all notions of the "hopeless" patient, and gives examples of people whose situation is far worse than yours, in all likelihood.
For those who suffer from fatigue, Low is particularly strident in his irreverance for these labeled "illnesses" that came before him. His chapter of Mental Health Through Will Training titled "The Myth of Nervous Fatigue" is a tremendous rebuke of the diagnosis of so-called discovery of an illness by a New York physician whose name escapes me, but who referred to his discovery as neurasthenia. This today would fall under the rubric of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" or FMS. And they are both nonsense.
Of course, there are many who would argue until the ends of the earth that their symptoms could not possibly be caused by nerves. And so, for those, there is a self-fulfilling prophecy of a future marked with more suffering and malaise.
Happy Father's Day to all celebrants out there.
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sarita
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 15:04:13
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which book of a. low should i get?
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Hillbilly
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Posted - 06/21/2009 : 22:38:29
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There are two: Mental Health Through Will Training and Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger. Both are stunningly simple and direct, no-nonsense, and full of advice on how to go about getting past your symptoms.
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Panic attack to fibromyalgia
