Cognitive Behavioural Theraphy

[Reebee70]

Hi

It has been suggested today that CBT may help my chronic pain conditions.I have Fibromalgia and Lipo-Lymperhoedema has anyone sourced this theraphy? If so has this helped reduce your pain levels.

[Blue-52]

good morning, to be honest, when I first started CBT, I didn’t find it helpful at all, but along the way I have met different people who teach it in different ways, I now have a psychology professor, who teaches me to trick the brain, it really is a matter of being in the right mind set, and using the tools they give you, and trying to relax. I hope you get a good one. Good luck.

[Fogginut]

It can help an awful lot. Just make sure you swerve the False Illness Beliefs CBT that has at the heart the premise that you are causing it yourself

As for coping CBT, very much so! I use in conjunction with stretching and meditation and it helps me cope better.

Hope it helps

🫂

[Loobielu in reply to Fogginut]

Funny enough when I had my CBT I came out thinking I was causing everything myself! I did enjoy the opportunity to meet up each week and have a chance to voice how I was feeling and to accept that it's ok, not to be ok or perfect. Everything is worth a go hey!

[N_hanif in reply to Fogginut]

my fibromyalgia is going worse day by day nothin help really depressed

[Hazel_Angelstar Administrator FMA UK Staff]

It can definitely help - but I think it also depends on the therapist. I've had cbt with different therapists, and only one of them I really connected with - and felt that it made a significant difference and left me with additional techniques that I could use daily to help manage my health

Cbt may not take your pain away, but it makes dealing with it easier

[Dinkie]

I've had two courses and I am afraid neither worked for me. On therapist insisted all I had to do was to imagine putting my pain or my worries or both on a large leaf and watch it float away down the stream🤷‍♀️ I've had more help from hypnotherapy personally.

[Reebee70]

Thank you, I am alway's willing to give anything a go... the readon for my enquiry is because Occupational Health at work insisted I try this theory. However, sometimes I feel they believe, it is a replacement for medication or your pain will magically disappear. This is due to lack of understanding or knowledge surrounding Fibromalgia and Lipo-Lymperhoedema and the pain is caused by it being all in my head...I wish.

[Tjoceans]

I'm not sure where you're located in the world. In the U.S. The DSM does not include FM as a disease, so it is like they don't believe anything is wrong and they don't believe it exists as something that has control of our lives, hence the prescription of antidepressants. Therapy and antidepressants may help, but they are not a cure-all. Probably just having anyone believe us is helpful to some relief. FM is an illness, but is it of the mind or of the body? I'd say both, but some docs, believe it is in the mind and doesn't really exist. That said, I'm not saying to stop what is working, instead I'm saying people with FM should have some measure of money from disability. In fact, people have said that if we have surgery or major surgery, if is actually the anaesthesia that causes it. Although, maybe we have to be predisposed. There's not enough research, again suggesting it's just in our heads. I blame the GMO foods that our govt signed off on for the money. Their foods are prepared for them by chefs and likely don't have GMO, knowing that scientists have said we should have never had them and whom were then fired. We shouldn't get down on ourselves and feel we are to blame for how we feel. A therapist may already be saying that. All therapists say that. I happen to think FM has some similarities with MS and Cerebral Palsy. Keeping muscles agile by stretching and yoga. Meditation can come from sitting in one place, clearing the mind or by a good book. Good friends that share how they feel, family that supports us and believes us, eating well, maybe gabapentin or antidepressants, but if you suffer manic depression , know that you are not meant to have antidepressants at any time whatsoever and must rely on mood stabilizers and antipsychotics. I found magnesium powder works better than tramadol, unless I'm having a major episode, then I reach for the tramadol, even if docs say I'm addicted to it, when I'm not. The docs here are the worst, they just treat everyone as addicted and everything in the mind. But, do whatever works for you and go with it. Don't worry about what other people think.

[Tiggerlostherbounce]

Hi,

I have had cbt and I think the pain side of things still needs help, some of the ways of thinking about coping with things that make matters worse or cause a downturn can be helped using good techniques that work for you. My therapist was good and we tried different techniques as not all the same things work for everyone as we are all different.

I’m very visual, so I use techniques included light and colours and breathing and lots of others depending on the situation. There lots. Of different ones ,so hopefully you will find one that works. I was sceptical at first, thinking I’d this all a bit hippy, but have an open mind and as others have said, every little hopefully helps

Good luck and rrreeelaaax🧘‍♀️

[Sleepy2oo]

I had CBT to help me cope with having a chronic illness with someone who specialised in helping with long-term illness. I found that it helped me cope with being ill and to stop fighting myself but I don't know how CBT could help you with the physical symptoms unless you find relaxing helps with pain and they give you help in how to relax. I would give it a go but if you find that it doesn't help you or isn't relevant then stop going.