They Cant Find Anything Wrong 7 Keys to Understanding Treating and Healing Stress Illness
They Cant Find Anything Wrong 7 Keys to Understanding Treating and Healing Stress Illness
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2 Stars Too pop psychology for my tastes
If others have found this helpful, good for them. I’m so glad.
It didn’t work for me. The doctors had not been able to tell me what was wrong. But, I found my answer was purely physical. I had been on synthroid. After seeing much on the net about how much better it is to be on natural thyroid, and that sometimes one has to address the adrenal issues, too, I found the help I needed. Sitting around writing out how my parents weren’t so perfect in certain ways would have been a big waste of time.
Again, though, it may helps others with different problems.
5 Stars Excellent service
The book arrived and was in great condition as the seller promised! I would buy from this seller again.
5 Stars The solution to stress induced illness
I highly recommend this book.
There have been many books about stress induced illness.
Dr. Sarno is probably the most well known in the area of stress induced pain. His book, “Healing Back Pain” has been a best seller. Thousands of people have recovered from back pain without surgery as a result of his books. Many patients have problems accepting his theory because it is somewhat technical. They state that “the pain is real; it is not in my head,” which of course is true but misses the point. Dr. Sarno recommends therapy for those who have followed his treatment program but still have pain.
It appears that, although thousands have recovered, many do not recover completely from stress induced pain and remain pain free for the rest of their lives. The pain frequently comes back, moves around and never seems to go away. This situation is a common complaint on the back pain forums. Dr. Clarke’s book provides an answer.
Dr. Clarke refers to stress induced pain as “stress illness.” His treatment consists of uncovering the emotions that are causing the stress and developing a course of action to react to these emotions and eliminate the pain.
Dr. Clarke interviews his patient until he finds the cause of the stress and then guides his patient to a solution to eliminate the stress. He has been following this procedure with remarkable success at the rate of approximately 400 patients a year for over 20 years.
At the present time, mainstream medicine does not understand stress illness and their patients suffer accordingly.
Neither Dr. Sarno’s nor Dr. Clarke’s treatments can be considered alternative medicine. The treatments are more appropriately described as procedures to be followed as a result of a correct diagnosis of the patient’s problem.
Dr. Clarke doesn’t try to convince the patient of Dr. Sarno’s theory, that is, that the pain is the result of repressed rage. Dr. Clarke just goes ahead looking for the cause of the stress and suggests a way to eliminate it. He is successful and the patient is cured. This is adequate proof of the correct diagnosis.
The case studies are fascinating. He seems to have the ability and technique of a therapist but his procedures are not too difficult to follow and can be very helpful to the reader. He guides the patient in discovering the cause of the stress and the relationship to the pain.
Dr. Clarke maintains that the emotions that create the stress must be uncovered. Sometimes just the knowledge of the emotions involved is sufficient as illustrated in his case studies, but sometimes further action is required of the patient. This is an excellent book for understanding the complete process of resolving stress illness pain. Dr. Clarke’s desire is that it be a self help book.
Mainstream medicine has been slow in accepting the concept that stress causes pain. Dr. Sarno has been the pioneer; Dr. Clarke is continuing the process. Some day, hopefully, mainstream medicine will have the knowledge of the correct diagnosis and cure their patients that are now in the process of continued suffering.
This book is a treat. It is a page turner. It is also one of the most helpful books on the subject of pain from stress. I predict that it will become a classic.
5 Stars Another Authoritative Easy Read On Mind-Body Illnesses
Seeking answers to a strange pain problem I had last year, I checked this book out after it was mentioned on a Discussion Board. I found it to be an easy read and futher reinforcement of my belief that I was experiencing stress overload as the source of my pain.
I was especially fascinated by the concept of childhood stress, as like so many other people I always felt my childhood was good, but I learned some new info that gave me a different perspective on how even some aspects of childhood experiences (not abuse or anything) can shape your future personality and lead to future stress disorders as well. I actually experienced some pain relief while reading the book.
I found the real-life examples very helpful although I would have liked to see more where people had “normal” stress exposure as opposed to a specific traumatic or multiple traumatic events. I wish some of the doctors I had visited had read this book and were open to its ideas as it would have saved me a lot of time, grief and pain.
–Melanie R. Jordan, author of “Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!” Have Your Cheeseburger And Keep Your Health Too!
5 Stars One of the Lucky Few!
I’m one of the lucky few who discovered I had a stress illness. Mine was PTSD, but Dr. Clarke’s so clearly illustrates how many of us get seriously ill before we get treatment for the effects of life’s traumas. This book is filled with lessons for all of us; it’s great medicine.
Deborah Dozier Potter, author of Let Buster Lead, discovering Love, Post-Traumatic Stress and Self-Acceptance
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