The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse ( Fibromyalgia, TMS, back pain, PTSD )

The Great Pain Deception
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 T M S— The Mindbody Syndrome
2 The Mind’s Eyewitnesses
3 Once Upon My Time….
4 Chasing the Changes— A Time for Reflection
5 How I Became Pain-Free
6 Opposition to TMS: JSBS
7 Placebo Yo-Yos and Nocebo No-Nos
8 Planting the Seeds, Growing the Pain— Who Is the Gardener?
9 What Did You Meme by That?
10 The Symptom Imperative Phenomenon
11 Timing of the Onset: Don’t Beware, Be Aware
12 Symbolic Attacks
13 SteveO, Do I Have TMS?
14 What You Need To Understand to Heal
15 Conditioning: The First Cut Is the Deepest
16 T– Wrecks, The Painful Personali–T
17 Goodist-itus— Inflammation of the Low Esteem
18 T n A— Major Personality Types and Health
19 Separation and Rage at 26 Months
20 Neurosis: Affectional Needs Gone Haywire
21 Highly Sensitive People — HSPs
22 CFS: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
23 Anxiety, Depression, and Metanoia
24 Drugs
25 Passus (Latin: “having suffered”)
26 Holding Onto Anger
27 Physician Heal Thyself— How To Free Yourself From Pain
29: Set Goals— The Big Picture with the Fine Print
30 Visualize! Imagine Being Healed— and Heal
31 Communicate
33: Laugh Dammit!— Seriously
34: Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
36 Trouble Healers: Unconscious Resistance to Change
37 Is it Gone Yet? Uh— You Still Here?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliography
Research Studies
Index
Notes