Emotional Aspects

[Cora]

Many of you read the long back and forth with Charlie, Ezer, and me. Charlie and I continued a bit on some of the challenges around PT. I brought up some of the comments that I've heard over the years, how people get intimidated and discouraged at times with PT's. I mean, we are in the most vulnerable positions with them, figuratively and literally. So, here is a paragraph out of our discussion that he asked that I share and it is in relation to the context of practitioners thinking the primary cause is psychological. No doubt, we all are depressed now and then, but here is my statement:


All chronic diseases have an emotional component and can be exacerbated by stress, but in the letters that I have received, I feel there has been chauvinism towards men and women, to quickly label them as psych or "head" cases, without any basis to do so. The catch 22 then becomes, if one starts to get upset, show emotions, advocate or show any "weakness", then I see some practitioners using that to validate their assumption about the patient. Then the patient walks away, distrusting and does not ask for more help, gets lost in the cloud, so to speak. It seems to me that pelvic pain is particularly susceptible to these assumptions. The same with other poorly understood conditions like fibromyalgia, CFS, M.S was that way. Some day, the treatment we have now will seem quite antiquated.

Peace,
Cora

[Violet M]

Cora, they used to think ulcers were strictly emotional -- until they discovered H. pylori.

Check out this recent discovery of a paine gene:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 121628.htm

I will post it in a separate thread also.