Re cinemanymph Coupling positive techniques for having the best outlook on pain with effective medical treatment seems like the most logical path to take. I agree with that Cn.
I need PMA right now. When I have setbacks, my PMA goes out the door. Something that seemed simple/easy gets put on a decision tread-mill that takes way too long to decide what to do, too much time doing it, too much mental effort wondering if I screwed up or could I have done it a better way. Some 2 hr jobs take 8 hours to finish. I am still a nice guy, still have self-esteem, just don't like some of my circumstances. Really bad about that.
So the book helps get me back to having a better frame of control. How much back (back really doesn't hurt but the pains shoot down my legs) pain is stress, how much is mechanical. Lower the mental results in a lowering of the physical sort of thing.
Just because the medical community can't come up with a medical reason for pain, repressed emotions are causing it? I hear you. Some things are not easy to correlate, like event "A" causes "B" to happen and the person experiences pain/feeling/symptoms "C".
I know I am willing to accept a multiple choice answer with percentages of why things are the way they are. I used to buy what some people with degrees said, and loked for concrete answers, but now it's OK for people to not know.
cinemanymph, if some people believe in prayer causing a person to get better, I suppose bad feelings can make some things worse. When someone feels worse, I think it is human nature to want to place the blame, at least that seems less stressful than having things up in the air.
I guess it's like the saying, "It's more comfortable to stick with the devil we know, no matter how bad, than to fear the devil we don't know.
Gee, there are lots of people that wonder why they are here on the earth at least at some point in their life. I think having answers like being connected to other people solves most of that question. We need to see a big picture, need to see and understand the map before we take a trip. It makes the traveling through our daily living or through medical/relationship problems and phases, feel more secure.
