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Mar 15 - "High Stakes Big Drama Name Change: CFS/ME=SEID (Systemic Exertion Intolerance DISEASE)" by Besame
Whether you were diagnosed as having CFS, ME, or CFS/ME, you now have a new acronym in American medicine, and increased credibility for affliction with an actual physical disease - SEID. People with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) know the name falsely trivializes as psychosomatic imaginary illness a profoundly debilitating state of disease. As of 10 Feb 2015 that is changed. The controversy, however, rages on with new fuel added.
Details of the name change and the findings behind it, how it occurred, why it is important, materials for using the information, and reactions of researchers, doctors, and patients are the subject of this diary...
Mar 22 "Alternative Medicine: Antidote for Severe Asthma" by wilderness voice
What does it mean to be "part of mainstream medicine" or "absorbed into the standard medical canon"? It means if you go to a doctor, s/he will recommend it as a treatment... It turns out that relying upon this is every bit as dangerous to your health as uncritically accepting unsubstantiated nostrums. As we shall see, there is no substitute for doing the research. It is your body and your health...
March 29 - "Always Keep Your Sense of Humor" by Vet63
..."The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical." — Norman Cousins
April 5 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: Amazing (not) words like 'amazing'!
April 12 - (the cycle of stress, pain and insomnia in caregiving) by michelewin
April 19 - "Psycho-physiologic Disorders Are Real" - the label of psychosomatic used to mean "it's all in your mind/imagination" - now we know that's false, and the entire nervous system is involved. by NancyWH, R.N.
In Part 1, we look at the Mind-Body Connection. Adrenaline and cortisol are important and helpful parts of the body’s response to stress. However, it’s important that the body’s relaxation response be activated so the body’s functions can return to normal following a stressful event. Chronic stress disrupts the ability to return to a more relaxed state, and can have adverse effect on health.
In Part 2, we look at the Brain-Gut connection. A "gut feeling" is not just a cliche. Psychology combines with physical factors to cause pain and other bowel symptoms. That doesn’t mean, however, that functional gastrointestinal illnesses are imagined or “all in your head.” Psychosocial factors influence the actual physiology of the gut, or make you more susceptible to infection.
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