Posted by ace on February 12, 2007, at 22:25:55
In reply to Can you WILL yourself better?, posted by Alone on February 11, 2007, at 22:17:26
> My dx PTSD and Somatization Disorder. I get so depressed I feel parallyzed. I get physical problems with no physical findings.
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> Everyone is telling me it's me. I agree that I get bad anxiety and it turns into a self feeding frenzy but I don't know how to stop.
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> Has anyone out there willed themselves into feeling better in any respect (obsessive thinking, body pains/problems, felling depressed etc...)
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> If anyone has, can you tell me how it's done so I can quiet my critics?
Your critics really don't have much compassion. You cannot 'will yourself' out of any pathology, mental or physical.That's like telling light to travel in a crooked line: it aint going to happen!
But you can learn skills to better cope with your pathologies.
peace!
Ace
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