Standard medicine teaches doctors how to make a diagnosis and is very useful in acute care. However the standard medical model is woefully inadequate in patients who have chronic (ongoing) symptoms.

Sadly, also in standard medicine, when a patient has symptoms which are severe but which are not ‘in the disease book’ they may be labelled as suffering from somatic (bodily) symptoms which are coming from a psychological (stress or anxiety or emotional trauma) cause.

Each patient is different and I want to provide you with something that is readable and informative without being over turgid so I can’t really go into all the details or you would just find yourself completely bored to tears.