They were right. It is all in your head.

Have you ever been accused of making up your illness or been told it is all in your head? Maybe they even tried to give you antidepressants.

Well it turns out they were right - it is all in your head and now science proves it. Actually it is in your brain. A study published in the November 2009 Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports that photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) detected functional abnormalities in certain regions of the brain of patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia. These abnormalities directly correlated with the severity of the disease and were found in the regions known to discriminate pain sensitivity and emotional responses to pain. Stress (physical, chemical and/or emotional) has changed the way your brain processes pain.

You aren't crazy and you weren't making it up and now there is proof.

Now that we know what the problem is what can we do about it? We will cover that on the post that follow.