Health-and-Fitness] Fibromyalgia is a very complex disorder and despite the ongoing efforts of modern medicine to reveal the exact factors responsible for causing it, the phenomenon is still shrouded in mystery. In the absence of accurate data on fibromyalgia, medical scientists can only speculate upon certain aspects of the disorder. Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Fibromyalgia is a complex chronic neurological disorder that generates a wide range of symptoms.

When a physician examines a rosacea sufferer, he often notices symptoms such as sadness, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and frustration. A general physician who performs brief, incomplete examinations may conclude that the patient has an underlying psychological disorder, and that the patient's mental state is causing his or her rosacea.

In general, illness springs from one of two causes. It may be entirely physical in origin or it may be psychosomatic, that is, a physical illness with psychological or emotional causes. This latter type of illness is the one that suggestion while in a state of hypnosis can help us to overcome. (Many physicians now claim that over half of all illnesses fall into a category of psychosomatic.)

Myalgia is muscle pain, often accompanied by weakness. FM patients have many overlapping medical symptoms with EMS patients, and one is muscle pain. Some with EMS have been diagnosed as having FM secondary to EMS, while others might have had pre-existing FM before they got EMS - perhaps as the result of a car accident or some other trauma.

Fibromyalgia, sometimes called Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Fibromyositis, Fibrositis, or Myofascial Pain Syndrome, is a chronic disorder characterized by extensive m

Several studies have shown that psychological disturbances are more common in IBS patients than patients with other gastrointestinal diagnoses and healthy controls. However, people with IBS who do not seek medical care have a similar psychological profile as the general population. Therefore, IBS is not caused by psychological problems, but a person's outcome and illness behavior is affected by their psychological make-up.

Yes. First, learn all you can about your illness by reading books, going to lectures and talking to your doctor. Get support from others who also have the illness. The Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association is a good place to look for a support group in your area. In these groups, you can hear how others face the challenges of life and manage their mood and treatment medications. For helpful hints for managing your illness, see Coping With Bipolar Disorder.

Bipolar disorder (commonly referred to as manic-depression) is a major affective disorder in which an individual alternates between states of deep depression and extreme euphoria (mania).

autoimmune disorder is any of a number of conditions in which a person's immune system reacts against the body's own organs or tissues, and the person's immune system produces antibodies to them. An autoimmune disorder is NOT an "immune deficiency". In the case of vitiligo, we believe that the immune system probably sees the person's own pigment cells as foreign bodies, and attacks them, destroying them or weakening them.

ANRED, a national organization for Eating Disorders, supplies lots of information on anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating.

Nobody knows. Like many disabled people (but unlike typical sufferers from those diseases) she was a very productive worker, even when she was too ill to leave her bed. She must have suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), because of her terrible experiences of the war. This would have contributed to her disability.

Here you will find some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Fibromyalgia (FM), Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) and Unrelenting Fatigue (UF) which has been taken from our on-line survey results. For those who responded to the survey - thank you. For those who are looking for answers to these and other questions, keep asking until you find them, it is the only way you will find your path to wellness.

They are quite similar in many respects. However, Fibromyalgia, according to what Dr. Peter Callegari told me, and wrote on this in a national newsletter, does not cause scarring or organ or tissue damage like that which is often found in EMS. It is possible to get Fibromyalgia secondary to EMS, and it's possible to have had Fibromyalgia prior to getting EMS. Not everyone with EMS gets Fibromyalgia. Dr.