One would think mental illness, would best be understood and accepted among those who have had extensive training in the area of mental health. The literature and physician suicide rate seem to point to the opposite. Surprising and contrary as it might seem, physicians have long stigmatized mental illness. And Read more…
After struggling for months with intense neurological pain that was turning my life upside down, I hit rock bottom. I was at the point where the only thing I felt was pain, and the only thing I did was try to ease the pain. My constant attempts to “fix” Read more…
As a person suffering from a neurological condition that evokes a good deal of nerve pain, I had not heard of graded motor imagery (GMI) until recently. The concept, foreign to me like many others, is a three-step process for chronic pain that serves to retrain the brain. Research studies Read more…