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Fri-29-04-2016, 16:20 PM
This probably isn't going to sound right but
Why on earth do/did we need a study to highlight the bleeding obvious. I know we still have some in the general medical profession who think P/PsA is a minor inconvenience and dismiss it out of hand.
It is not surprising sufferers have misconceptions and associated fears about their disease. I would hazard a guess most patients have never been given satisfactory information about their disease (I now know I knew very little about P before I joined this forum and I considered myself fairly well informed). Its only human nature to look on the bad side of things and it is very easy to fall into that cone of dispare when you are in pain or sever discomfort. It is also true of hiding an illness and developing coping strategies. Its what we do.
I think what I am trying to say this should be obvious to the medics and a better education of the sufferers and the general population would reap benefits.
Why on earth do/did we need a study to highlight the bleeding obvious. I know we still have some in the general medical profession who think P/PsA is a minor inconvenience and dismiss it out of hand.
It is not surprising sufferers have misconceptions and associated fears about their disease. I would hazard a guess most patients have never been given satisfactory information about their disease (I now know I knew very little about P before I joined this forum and I considered myself fairly well informed). Its only human nature to look on the bad side of things and it is very easy to fall into that cone of dispare when you are in pain or sever discomfort. It is also true of hiding an illness and developing coping strategies. Its what we do.
I think what I am trying to say this should be obvious to the medics and a better education of the sufferers and the general population would reap benefits.
