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Simultaneous Treatment for Depression and Chronic Back Pain

When the diagnosis of major depression in the chronic back pain patient is missed or ignored, treatments strictly directed at the pain are much more likely to fail. As concluded by Ohayon and Schatzberg (2003), the presence of a chronic pain physical condition increases the duration of depressive mood, and chronic pain patients seeking medical consultation should be routinely screened for a major depression.

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Coping With and Treating Fibromyalgia

As we use the term today, fibromyalgia refers to a set of symptoms and signs that we use to designate the person as having fibromyalgia. We use the term to provide a patient with a diagnosis. But the term doesn't refer to any underlying disease process.

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10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain:
How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life

10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life Have you tried a number of approaches to manage chronic pain without much relief? The discouraging cycle of hope followed by frustration and continued pain can be as damaging to your quality of life as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management advocate living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need to stay engaged with life. Distilled from the very best of these techniques, this little book offers you ten simple, effective solutions for thriving with chronic pain.

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Visit Our New Chronic Pain Forums

Have you visited our new mental health forums - bulletin boards area. It's a place where people with psychiatric conditions or their family members and friends can post questions regarding the mental health issues that confront them today. We encourage you to post your questions and to offer your advice and experience. Sharing is helpful to everyone.


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Support Groups

Welcome to the HealthyPlace.com support groups. We hold a variety of support groups, and we're sure that you will find one, or many, helpful n your search for better health.

Everyone is invited, and there is no charge to attend any of the groups.

Here's a list of all hosted support groups at HealthyPlace.com

Would You Like to Write Your Journal with Us?

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JournalingJournal writing is well recognized as a valuable technique to develop thinking skills and self understanding. Personal journal writing gives us an opportunity to contemplate ideas and reflect on what we have learned.  To write your own journal, fill out this short application here.

Chronic Pain News

1 in 4 Americans Has Daily Pain
Problem costs the U.S. $60 billion a year in lost productivity, survey finds

More than a quarter of Americans have daily pain, a problem that costs the country more than $16 billion a year in pain remedies and about $60 billion a year in lost productivity, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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Jolt Away Pain

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Radio Show Archives

"The Psychology of Getting Better"

Our guest, Susan, was sexually abused over 30 years ago. She's been diagnosed with major depression, PTSD, OCD and panic disorder and was hospitalized at least twice. Susan's spent the last 10 years in therapy trying to deal with what happened. Over that period of time, she's changed meds, changed doctors, tried to journal, tried meditation, tried keeping busy. At 45, she still can't deal with the sadness. She, like many who suffer from various psychological disorders, wants to know -- what's it take to get better?

Listen to this Radio Show Archives when you click here with your Windows media player. Check the list of other Radio Shows here.

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The Pain of Depression

As you’ve seen on TV, depression can have both emotional and painful physical symptoms. Learn about what you can do. Click here.

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Powerful Documentary Films at HealthyPlace.com

HealthyPlace.com unveiled four of the most powerful mental health videos you have ever seen. These are stories about sexual molestation, rape, eating disorders and teens trapped in abusive relationships.

What makes these mental health films different and so moving is that they describe the impact of physical and sexual violence and misperceptions on their victims. And for the most part, these stories are told in the victim's or sufferer's own words.

You can watch them using your windows media player. We've also set up special bulletin boards for your feedback.

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