Are you conscientious, responsible, and hardworking? Does your drive come primarily from within? Are you self-motivated, self-disciplined, and your own severest critic? In his book Mind Over Back Pain, Dr. John Sarno describes these personality traits as common in patients who experience chronic back pain, ulcers or ulcerative... Read more
In Part I of this SharePost, I explained that if you or someone you love has just been diagnosed with IBD, you may be experiencing grief and may not even know it. In this SharePost, I provide information about how grief varies from person to person, and I also provide suggestions for different ways to manage this emotion.
Grief does not... Read more
Many of you have written to the Health Central Network,
reporting that you have just been diagnosed with IBD. Most likely, when your
doctor delivered the news, he or she recommended an appropriate diet, lifestyle
modifications, and possibly a prescription medication to help you better manage
your condition. What your doctor may not have warned... Read more
Eating foods that are safe for IBD requires choices which
can sometimes be difficult for a child or a teen to make. I have witnessed this
first hand, with an adolescent friend of ours who lives with Crohn's Disease and often waits for his Mom to leave a social event so he can eat the things
the other kids are eating, even if he pays a high... Read more
I never liked the idea of "journaling." The word always made
me think of an older woman, wrapped in a shawl, drinking herbal tea with
nothing else to do but reflect on her past. Definitely not for me. But
"writing," now that's a different story. That can happen on my back porch, with
my laptop, drinking a Diet Coke, while my two boys serenade... Read more
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