Yet again, while reading an article about fibromyalgia, I was hit with another pejorative term in the first few lines. The authors describe the usual characteristics of fibromyalgia and then say, “and a high level of catastrophizing related to pain.” If you do a Google search for “catastrophizing,” it tells you that it is “a
Fibromyalgia is not a trash can diagnosis originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
