Sleep disorders can affect a wide variety of health conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and depression. Now add fibromyalgia to the list.

According to a recent multi-site trial published in Arthritis Rheumatism, a peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) reduces functional disability and depressive symptoms in adolescent with juvenile fibromyalgia. The trial demonstrated that the psychological therapy was safe and effective as well as superior to disease management ...

The catch-22 of antidepressant therapy is the depression that comes from gaining weight on a drug used to stop the depression.

This is about chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and chronic myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and their relationship to pain and depression. Fatigue is a common health complaint, one of the hardest terms to define, and a symptom of many different conditions. Fatigue is a challenge.

Q: Since childhood, I have been suffering with tonsillitis, chronic colds and allergies -- both seasonal and medication-induced. At the age of 24, I was diagnosed with discoid lupus; at the age of 30, with fibromyalgia, pleurisy, kidney stones/infection, vertigo, depression and anxiety. My ANA test for three years has come back normal, but I continue to get lesions, my hair falls out, and I get ...