Do you suffer from ongoing pain or other chronic medical symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, lower back pain, reflux, insomnia, or arthritis? Do these symptoms interfere with your family time or your work? Have you been forced to give up activities you enjoy? Do you feel as though your symptoms are taking over your life? Millions of people suffer from chronic illnesses that respond only partially, if at all, to regular medical treatment. But this doesn’t mean that there is no relief in sight.
Dr. Arthur Barsky, a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, has found that changing the way you think about illness can have a remarkable effect on how you experience your symptoms. Two people with the same symptoms can have dramatically different lives because they think about and react to their symptoms differently.
Through proven, careful research at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Barsky developed Feeling Better, A 6-week Mind-Body Program to Ease your Chronic Symptoms. Based on more than twenty years of clinical experience, his tested treatment plan is unique, powerful, and simple to learn. Through hundreds of exercises, worksheets, and examples, the groundbreaking program contained in Feeling Better teaches patients to master the five psychological factors that contribute to chronic symptoms. Each week of the program is designed to build on your own experiences and practice, culminating in an individual and powerful set of tools for you to use to cope with all kinds of physical distress. In addition, other chapters teach you about how symptoms have become such a distressing part of our everyday lives and general principles about living a full and healthy life.
You may not be able to completely eliminate your symptoms, but it is possible to control them rather than letting them control you – to manage your pain, fatigue, insomnia, and anxiety. You can learn new coping skills and do more to make sure that your symptoms are not robbing your life of meaning and pleasure.
Feeling better about your symptoms means you can begin to live the life you deserve.
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I would love to review this book. It is tops in its field.
E Deans MD
Sometimes, chronic pain is what gets people to the doctor/hospital/emergency room in time to save their life.
Having said that, there is likely a place in everyone's life where control/management of symptoms could be life-altering in a very positive way. This is the perfect time for a book like this.
(atypical chest pain, for example, not caused by heart or lung problems), or a dangerous cause was found but is being fully treated (nerve damage and pain caused by diabetes, for example). However, once the symptom has been evaluated and continues despite medical treatment, the book can be very helpful for pretty much anyone.
E Deans MD
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