Posted by yxibow on February 12, 2007, at 16:17:04
In reply to Re: Can you WILL yourself better?, posted by blueberry1 on February 12, 2007, at 2:31:36
> Not me. Six months of psychotherapy helped with coping but not healing.
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> If the cause is life event related then I believe one can will it away with help and training from a professional. If the cause is biological, then it can be willed away no more than a diabetic can will away the diabetes.Alone, and myself have what I believe, and I can't say that they're identical, Somatization disorders. They're biologically based, but they are now known to have some root in psychology as well.
Just as my OCD was and still is (quiescent now basically) biological, its breakout origin was puberty and my overwhelming embarassment over my sexuality which came from environmental factors; my parents aren't conservative types, not politically anyhow.
So while you can down as many pills as I do to make life easier; in the long run I don't know if its capable for me to keep the regime up, what with possible side effects of long term use, even of medications that have collective thousand-year patient aggregate safety profiles.
Also, masking the disorder from what all I have been told, while it makes life tolerable, it also makes therapy harder because you are blunted. Your affect does not get out as much -- therapy is a time to be animated, to get out what is hurting you at the time.
Do I believe that therapy alone can "cure" something or that you can "will" something better, no (with a caveat that CBT alone can sometimes be as effective as SSRI challenges against at least not the worst cases of OCD -- this was proven 15 years ago) -- but I've had some odd experiences with a disorder that in manifestation at least, is rare.
The usual conversion/somatization disorders that appear and disappear are pseudoseizures and the like and they tend to be short term events.-- Jay
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