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Fibromyalgia: Hope from a Completely New Perspective

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Dr. Glasser has made his book on fibromyalgia, tell his story of what he now calls "choice theory", in a story format. What he tells does not just apply to fibromyalgia, it applies to most of our life challenges. This is a short book, that tells all anyone really needs to have a continuously improving life. There is a lot to be gained from telling how choice theory works by using these realistic cases. Then we can identify with the challenges faced by himself and the other people in his book.

Now that he has his story in an enjoyable format, I would like to see a companion workbook. Because, once you know the challenges, then you really need to do the necessary work.

I have been a fan of Dr. Glasser a long time, since I first ran into his early book called "Reality Therapy". Since then I have been impressed by his "Stations of the Mind" and "Schools Without Failure" and many others. Then I ran into his practices in my masters program on applied psychology and found how useful his theories are in practice.

William Glasser is a psychiatrist--strike one. Psychiatrists are still stuck on the notion that fibromyalgia an illness that is psychologically caused and continued and nothing in what I've read about his take on fibromyalgia tells me he is any different. Strike two is the statement that there is no pathology, i.e. physical abnormalities with fibromyalgia. On the contrary, there are numerous studies going on at numerous prestigious universities by numerous knowledgeable researchers that are discovering very definite physical, biochemical abnormalities in fibromyalgia patients that are not psychologically caused. Strike three--the incidence of psychological difficulties (depression, anxiety, etc.) is approximately the same in the fibromyalgia population as in the general population. If the depression rate is any higher, it's because of [people] like Glasser and the members of the medical profession who set themselves up as "experts" on the subject of fibromyalgia when they know NOTHING. It's a never ending battle for fibro patients...