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I just started reading this thread today (Wednesday) and have made it to Angelmom's reply just now, and have to respond....
As for being able to positively think your way out of illness....Not in a million years if it is a physical illness. Positive thinking can HELP your recovery, but not be the sole cause of the recovery. My ex-spouse (one of the reasons he is an ex) several years ago told me I could positively think my way out of severe depression. (he told me several other useless 'cures') HA! A few months later, I was hospitalized for suicidal ideation and major depression. Meds and cognitive therapy, over a few years finally put this in the past.
As for my inflammatory arthritis (being treated as AS), there is no way on earth that thinking positively is going to make that go away. For 10 yrs, I've had pain of some sort relating to this. Maybe I wasn't thinking positively enough? It's only now that I'm on methotrexate that I could start having positive thoughts....that this is the right drug that can help me. Without the constant pain...the positive thinking could be a little easier.
Ronel, I'm not jumping on you or your brother in this post. I think the things he is doing are helpful to him and this website is all about being helpful. Some things are helpful to some and not helpful at all to others. We share these things in the hopes of helping someone else.
Before I had the diagnosis of inflam-arthr, I was not a happy camper. I hurt a lot and had been to numerous doctors to get relief/diagnosis for this pain. While I still have much of the same pain, it's different now that it has been 'acknowledged'. I can work toward accepting that I have an autoimmune disease and work toward controlling it with medication, etc. But I don't see positive thinking as any more than a small part of the big picture.
And I think Dr Wood was right on....if what you are saying doesn't match up with what you are really feeling in your heart, it's just doo-doo. And you will feel worse.
