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Fibromyalgia and medicine – My own thoughts and experiences

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Twenty-five years ago, I was diagnosed with a relatively new termed disease call fibromyalgia, affecting the tissue system throughout the body with various points of pain triggered in different areas. Treatment was through anti-depressants, anti-inflammatory drugs, biofeedback, etc. At one point, I was taking 7500 mg a day in drugs to numb the neural messages being fed throughout the body from the brain/mind center. This continued for about three years, until one morning I woke up and flushed/threw away all medication I had been taking. To me, the affects of medication were far worse than the reason I began taking the drugs to begin with. At the time, I was working in a hospital and the same day I crossed paths with my own doctor – stopping her and letting her know, not all drugs were removed from my body and my life. She just looked at me and said, “You can’t do that! Some of the drugs were narcotics and you can not just STOP taking them!” My only response was “it’s already done ...

Bullies of our spirit

Bullies of our spirit http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Bully Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bul´ly Pronunciation: b n. 1. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous, who threatens, intimidates, or badgers people who are smaller or weaker than he is; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in. As adults, we see bullying of children as a horrific injustice to the nature or spirit of a child – yet as adults many feel they have survived beyond the bully. Children as bullies wear the hat of the child, as adults the hats are innumerable in styles and shapes throughout everyday life. As adults, bullies are condoned as being acceptable and often times needed or revered in life. This statement alone would have many adults shaking their heads and proclaiming in their own lives – bullies no longer exist. Yet they do. All forms of bullying imprint your energy field and spirit of who you are; bullies can range from the pulp...