What Do Cars & Fibromyalgia Have in Common?

I found a great article by Dr. Robert O. Young in which he talks about how we often look at problems the wrong way. He talks about driving a car. Every so often on the highway you have deal with road changes or weather. If you hit a slippery patch, you have to grab the wheel and turn to regain control. Sometimes we turn too much and make the matter worse. He compares this to standard disease treatment and admits the medical establishment over does it.

Cars and fibromyalgia have something in common: us! We are the drivers and we need to watch how our driving habits affect us.

Dr. Young also uses a crying boy example as another great metaphor. A child cries because something has upset him. From a parent's point of view it looks like the child is crying over something simple like a glass spilling and making a mess. (My son doesn't care about messes. He loves to make them, but it makes an easy example for my story). But the parent may scold the child saying, "Don't cry over that, it's not a big deal." Did we ask the child what was really the matter? The child may have seen something else that was troubling. Now the parent misses the mark and doesn't provide enough comfort while the child begins to hide his emotions so he doesn't have to feel the rejection.

In my upcoming book about medical label abuse, I want to teach the public how to avoid the negative consequences of assumptions that lead people to feel rejected and discriminated by the culture of diagnosis. People are often discriminated by a diagnosis given to them and it changes their entire health outlook.

Dr. Young knows standard medical care has lost sight of the disease process. Just like that car being driven poorly, we are all some how stuck behind the slow driver and a pile up is waiting to happen any minute. But some of us are taking the nearest off-ramp changing the course of our lives.

If you took my mini-course: The 3 Mistakes of Fibromyagia Treatment, you will have a better understanding of this system that affects how we believe we can heal. You can read Dr. Young's article here.

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