I believe pain can cause depression.
I belive that pain limits what you can do. With those limits comes self worth issues and can also cause isolation.
What are your thoughts on the subject?
After all WE are the EXPERTS !

Curious if there is an antidepressant that helps people the most with their moods?

Hi Everyone,

For years when I come home after being out I find myself sitting in my car for about an hour or more unable to move feeling exhausted and down. For a long time I thought it had to do with my PTSD but tonight I think it is due to fibro fog and fatigue??
Can anyone relate? Thank you in advance!

I know there's many reasons for fibromyalgia but is Anxeity one of them?? Is there a correlation between anxeity and depression causing fibromyalgia 🙃😕

This has been a very busy week at work - my body isn’t so happy. My feet hurt even when I first get up in the morning. My left elbow hurts - it’s usually the first body part to experience pain.

What concerns me today though is that I’m struggling to speak properly. I’m getting words and letters mixed up like saying “baper pag” instead of “paper bag”. Does anyone else have this problem? It’s a bit scary.

People who are single, living with fibro,,, do you wonder/worry how you would meet a potential partner???

Does anyone's doctor tried to refer them to a psychologist? Because of nothing working and helping me my doctor insist on sending me to talk to someone.

Does anyone else stutter? Or have trouble with saying the words you want to say?

I recently consulted with a different rheumatologist who sent me to a neurologist and a pain specialist. The neurologist wants to do a sleep study. My problem though is the pain in my legs. I also have pain at times in my shoulders and neck, and I have arthritis in my right foot at the base of my big toe which is hurting a lot lately. In the past I have taken hydrocodone, but my former rheumatologist switched me to Tramadol. I was taking 300 mg per day. The pain specialist allowed me to… read more

Hello, I wondred what people's thought of fybro being a physical manifestation of emotional or mental destress?

I have suffered from depression all my life and I wondered if the pain that I have felt emotionally is some how now been reinterpreted by my body as fybromyalgia.