"Anytime I feel uncomfortable around someone, I try to talk to them and educate them" (1:13)
Rebecca, a fibromyalgia patient, explains what it feels like to have people minimize your pain and how to educate them.
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What Is Fibromyalgia?
The cluster of symptoms
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The Science of Fibromyalgia
What doctors know
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Good From Bad
How fibro helped her
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When People Don't Help
How to protect yourself
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How do you handle people who don't support you?
Rebecca, 52, has been living with fibromyalgia for more than 30 years. After struggling without proper treatment for years, she took control of her disease and utilized alternative therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic manipulation to achieve pain control. She used to describe her pain as a nine or a 10 and now she finds it’s a one or a two. She has written a book to help others like her,
Beyond Chronic Pain: A Get-Well Guidebook to Soothe the Body, Mind & Spirit. In this video, Rebecca talks about people who have minimized her pain in the past and how she educates them and protects herself.
What Is Fibromyalgia?The cluster of symptoms
The Science of FibromyalgiaWhat doctors know
Good From BadHow fibro helped her
When People Don't HelpHow to protect yourself
