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Fibromyalgia is often associated with a number of mental conditions and, in fact, FMS is frequently diagnosed by mental health professionals (which may not be a good thing since many internists/family doctors have trouble conceptualizing fibromyalgia as a physical disorder with a physical origin).
Which mental problems are most frequently associated with FMS? Typically, the conditions that seem to be most frequently associated with fibromyalgia are depression and anxiety. Because this is the case, questions often arise as to whether or not a causal link exists between fibromyalgia and either depression or anxiety. Of course, it would only be natural for a condition that results in pain, fatigue, and sleep to have an adverse affect on mood and contribute to the rise of anxiety levels. Recent scientific evidence, however, increasingly points to a medical cause for FMS. The leading candidates at the moment have to do with a patient's failure to achieve sufficient amounts of restorative delta-stage (deep level) sleep, and with the levels of certain hormones and neurotransmitters, such as estrogen and serotonin. |
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