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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 281342" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Good for you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What I'm talking about goes beyond just pain. And as for that book - don't waste any effort looking for it. I read an extract and in my opinion, it was rubbish. While I do feel that some level of psychoimmunology is always worth investigation, the "Love Your Disease" book took it way too far and insisted that ALL illness was COMPLETELY related to state of mind - utter bunkum. A very 80s/90s idea (which is roughly when the book came out).</p><p></p><p>There are other more useful references.</p><p></p><p>A suggestion with pain management (although you sound like you're already doing a lot of good stuff) - if you can develop a conditioned response with pain relief and meditation (or anything else) then you can use it to give your pain management a strong boost. I have a couple of really good visualisations which work well, especially if you combine them with existing pain 'tricks'.</p><p></p><p>An example of a useful conditioned response - back when I was working full-time and still trying to pretned I didn't have a disability, I waschugging pain pills. Often I would be so busy that the pain would be bad before I took anything, so I had a cup of hot coffee to wash the pills down and to speed up the absorption (hoping the hot drink would speed it up). What happened - my brain gort used to the connection between the taste of coffee and the actual pain relief of the pills. So one day when I had run out of codeine, I had the coffee on its own. And the pain eased!</p><p></p><p>I did this for the next three days and the conditioned response slowly wore off. </p><p></p><p>This doesn't mean that pain pills don't work and I may as well just drink coffee - it worked because I built up a connection with the coffee. It's a bit like hypnosis, you can 'trick' your brain into doing this. The pain was real, it was physical in cause. But the brain's response to pain is also physical but it can be 'fooled'.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 281342, member: 1991"] Good for you. What I'm talking about goes beyond just pain. And as for that book - don't waste any effort looking for it. I read an extract and in my opinion, it was rubbish. While I do feel that some level of psychoimmunology is always worth investigation, the "Love Your Disease" book took it way too far and insisted that ALL illness was COMPLETELY related to state of mind - utter bunkum. A very 80s/90s idea (which is roughly when the book came out). There are other more useful references. A suggestion with pain management (although you sound like you're already doing a lot of good stuff) - if you can develop a conditioned response with pain relief and meditation (or anything else) then you can use it to give your pain management a strong boost. I have a couple of really good visualisations which work well, especially if you combine them with existing pain 'tricks'. An example of a useful conditioned response - back when I was working full-time and still trying to pretned I didn't have a disability, I waschugging pain pills. Often I would be so busy that the pain would be bad before I took anything, so I had a cup of hot coffee to wash the pills down and to speed up the absorption (hoping the hot drink would speed it up). What happened - my brain gort used to the connection between the taste of coffee and the actual pain relief of the pills. So one day when I had run out of codeine, I had the coffee on its own. And the pain eased! I did this for the next three days and the conditioned response slowly wore off. This doesn't mean that pain pills don't work and I may as well just drink coffee - it worked because I built up a connection with the coffee. It's a bit like hypnosis, you can 'trick' your brain into doing this. The pain was real, it was physical in cause. But the brain's response to pain is also physical but it can be 'fooled'. Marg [/QUOTE]
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