Living with fibromyalgia is extremely difficult, as millions of people around the world can attest. The fact that the physical and emotional pain is not visible to others can often make it even more difficult. Fibromyalgia is known as an “invisible illness” because its painful and often debilitating side effects are often not apparent to others. A person with fibromyalgia…
here are many reasons people struggle with the fear of being left. If you’ve experienced it personally, you may be intimately aware with the impact it can have on your daily functioning. Maybe you grew up experiencing emotional abuse, and secure relationship attachments weren’t part of your upbringing. Maybe you’ve lost someone important to you and are afraid of another loved one vanishing without warning.…
It’s estimated that up to 40 percent of people with fibromyalgia experience migraines or another form of persistent headache. But like fibromyalgia, it’s difficult to discover what’s causing your headaches. And like fibromyalgia, migraines are often misdiagnosed. In fact, some people who experience persistent headaches don’t actually have migraines, but a related condition called occipital neuralgia. Occipital neuralgia Occipital neuralgia…
was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) around three years ago. I’d had a particularly uncharacteristic outburst at a family member and finally decided to go to my GP, who referred me to a psychiatrist. He saw me for just two sessions before he diagnosed me. As many BPD sufferers feel when they first receive a diagnosis, there’s a sense of relief because…
Inflammatory foods are those that promote and cause more inflammation throughout the body. Inflammatory processes are the starting point of multiple diseases and worsen symptoms of fibromyalgia, arthritis, and muscle pain. Currently, pain is the most commonly treated condition by doctors and specialists. We all know someone who suffers from near-chronic pain, or we ourselves suffer from it. Painkillers and…
Pete Davidson has always been unabashedly honest when it comes to his mental and physical illnesses. In 2016, Davidson revealed his Crohn’s disease diagnosis, an autoimmune disorder in which parts of the digestive system become inflamed (via People). He’s also been very candid about his depression, telling Charlamagne Tha God in 2020: “I’m always depressed, all the time. I have…
There are two ways I can write about this — the trigger before I understood what was going on and the trigger now that I know what is going on. Before I had a diagnosis or engaged in any kind of treatment or made any kind of attempt to understand what was going on, triggers were subconscious. Imagine looking out your window.…
By Adele Alexander After osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatic disorder. Still, it is difficult to pick the fibromyalgia earlier, because its symptoms fluctuate. This condition affects mainly women than men. It is characterized by the pain in all over the body accompanied by stiffness and fatigue. According to Daniel Clauw, MD, professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan,…
5 Things I Wish My Friends Knew About My Borderline Personality Disorder I can imagine that having a friend with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be quite frustrating at times, but I hope to help explain to everyone why some of us may act the way we do and help end the confusion others may have about BPD. 1. Having BPD…
Were you ever afraid of your mother, or of your father? If so, odds are pretty good that at least part of the problem may have been borderline personality disorder, though there could have been other problems as well. What is borderline personality disorder? At its core, BPD is a pattern of overly intense emotional responses. One result of overly intense…