Fibromyalgia and psychiatric illness
Hello
Have you, someone with fibromyalgia every thought that you pain is causing your mental health issues?
We have long held that suffering persistently withchronic pain takes a massive tollon a person’s psyche.
The study this week will reveal how much it has taken a toll on people suffering with fibromyalgia.
The study is called “Axis I and Axis II psychiatric disorders in patients with fibromyalgia”.
Axis here means a category of psychiatric illnesses.
“The study sample includes 103 patients with fibromyalgia and 83 control subjects. Axis I and Axis II disorders were determined by structured clinical interviews.”
“The rate of any Axis I psychiatric disorder (47.6% vs. 15.7%), major depression (14.6% vs. 4.8%), specific phobia (13.6% vs. 4.8%), any Axis II disorder (31.1% vs. 13.3%), obsessive–compulsive (23.3% vs. 3.6%) and avoidant (10.7% vs. 2.4%) personality disorders were significantly more common in the patient group compared to the control group.”
Wow that is an enormous increase. Most seem tomore than 3-fold increase.
In our experience, resolving the fibromyalgia will have an enormous positive impact on the persons mental health.
Do you want to resolve your fibromyalgia?
Jason
