Is It All in My Head?. Melissa Schorr.
by Schorr, Melissa; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 35Health. Publisher: Psychology Today, 2005ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Chronic fatigue syndrome | Cognitive therapy | Depression -- Mental -- Physiological aspects | Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation | Fibromyalgia | Mind and body | Self-perception | Stress (Physiology)DDC classification: 050 Summary: Researchers "are coming to believe that psychological factors play a crucial role in perpetuating many physical illnesses, particularly a subset of chronic ailments that defy logic, diagnosis or a cure. It seems that the way you think about your illness can actually affect how sick you get" (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article examines the connection between mental belief and physical being, noting the new consensus that many of "these 'multi-symptom illnesses'--which include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and potentially others such as Gulf War syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome and the condition known as multiple chemical sensitivity...are truly mind-body diseases, in which biological and psychological causes and dysfunctions are inseparably intertwined. The mind seems to play a key role in kick-starting and perpetuating illness--but it's not that sufferers are simply malingerers. Their bodies are sick, and their reaction to the illness often makes it worse."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Is It All in My Head?, May/June 2005; pp. 70+.
Researchers "are coming to believe that psychological factors play a crucial role in perpetuating many physical illnesses, particularly a subset of chronic ailments that defy logic, diagnosis or a cure. It seems that the way you think about your illness can actually affect how sick you get" (PSYCHOLOGY TODAY) This article examines the connection between mental belief and physical being, noting the new consensus that many of "these 'multi-symptom illnesses'--which include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and potentially others such as Gulf War syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome and the condition known as multiple chemical sensitivity...are truly mind-body diseases, in which biological and psychological causes and dysfunctions are inseparably intertwined. The mind seems to play a key role in kick-starting and perpetuating illness--but it's not that sufferers are simply malingerers. Their bodies are sick, and their reaction to the illness often makes it worse."
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