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Importance of focusing on Positive with Depression & Anxiety.

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Nov 7, 2022 | Replies (623)
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@hopeful33250

Hello @linamend,

I just read several of your posts as well as some of the responses of the members of Connect. I would like to encourage you to try one more thing. Are you aware of the Pain Rehabilitation program at Mayo Clinic?

I would like to invite a Connect mentor, Rachel, @rwinney, to this discussion. She has suffered from chronic pain for a long time. She also attended this Pain Rehabilitation Clinic at Mayo and was helped.

If you have not yet met Rachel here is information from her profile:
"Rachel, Volunteer Mentor (@rwinney)
I'm a wife, mom of two, and CEO and Manager of my Central Nervous System. I have a chronic pain disorder called Central Sensitization Syndrome. I attended Mayo Clinic's Pain Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville, Florida. There, I learned how to better my path forward by living my best C-life possible. This quote by Dolly Parton sums it up nicely... "We can not direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails"."

Here is an overview of Mayo's Pain Rehabilitation Clinic, https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/pain-rehabilitation-center/sections/overview/ovc-20481691.

Do you think that you would be interested in learning more about this clinic?

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linamend | @linamend | Jul 6, 2022

Thanks ever so much for your kindness. But I have been in the Johns Hopkins Pain Clinic program, as well as the Georgetown University pain clinic. I have no more energy to deal w this issue. Getting thru each day is all I can do.

I've had over 80 sessions of Biofeedback, at least 76 sessions of acupuncture, numerous "hypnosis sessions", Rolfing, traditional Vietnamese medicine, you name it, I've tried it. Plus years on very high levels of Oxycontin in the 1990s, to which I never got addicted, and just weaned myself off.

Weaned myself off Fioricet numerous times also.

So what I'm taking now is the lowest dosage of medication of any time in my life.

I think I'll just stay w this regimen since psychologically and emotionally I can't take any more demands to try to get well. I am utterly exhausted.

But thank you so much from my heart. Lin

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