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It's easier for health professionals and most
of their patients to use drugs as a substitute for change.
Self-medication with alcohol or nicotine, or with prescription
anti-depressants and stimulants are easier than applying intelligence,
focus and analytical skills to complex relationship situations.
Drugs
are also far more profitable
for health professionals.
The long-term consequences and side-effects of
psychoactive drugs are
unacceptable to an increasing number of professionals and
to their patients.
What are Migraines?
Migraines are periodic severe headaches, with throbbing,
sometimes blinding pain, nausea and vomiting; chills and sweating; tender scalp
and face; light sensitivity and irritability; and a general feeling of illness.
Some migraine headaches are ascribed to
stress disorders,
overwork or workaholic behavior.
Migraine headaches may be preceded by visual patterns or
flashes, illusory tastes or odors, dizziness or faintness
or tingling or numbness in extremities. Some migraines are
considered psychosomatic.
Causes of Migraine Headaches
Migraine headaches may seem to be triggered by stress (e.g.
overwork, loud noises), by allergies, by excess dietary carbohydrates,
iodine, and/or alcohol. However, the underlying cause of migraines
often reflect the relationship dynamics of the migraine sufferer's family and
workplace.
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I had migraine headaches since I was a
child ... I thought you
were crazy when you seemed to suggest that I could just ''talk them away'. But in
our first session, I found a frightened
young-me ... you showed me how to love her. In our third session I found that my
migraines were somehow mixed with a bad event when I was nine and was molested
in a park. By our fifth session I seemed to have healed myself ...
no migraines for 6 months ... Dublin Ireland |
Managing Migraine Headaches with Drugs
Several prescription drugs are used to help people manage migraine
headaches. Medications such as Sumatriptan (Imitrex) and ergotamine
tartrate, can limit acute migraine pain. Propranolol can help prevent subsequent attacks. Other drugs prescribed
for migraines are Phenelzine and Amitriptyline.
Many drugs have side effects, including weakness, skin rashes, irregular heartbeat, tight chest or throat,
difficulty breathing or fainting. (Sumatriptan may react unpleasantly with
ergotamine, a drug that is often used to relieve migraine headaches.) See
Side Effects of
Common Prescription Drugs
Incidence of Migraine Headaches
About three-quarters of all migraine sufferers have a
family history of migraine. About two-thirds of all migraine victims are
women. Migraine headaches also occur more often amongst people who set high, demanding standards for themselves.
Setting high standards is a common family tradition - to be followed at all
costs! Are migraine sufferers bad people if they do not follow unhealthy
traditions?
Systemic Causes of Migraine Headaches
If an ancestor also suffers migraines, then a family
knows how to care for a person suffering
from severe headaches. Migraines are often perceived as
a family traditions rather than as a genetic disease.
Like many other intermittent chronic diseases, migraine
headaches offer undeniable reasons for "time off" and "time away".
If you don't stop and rest, your body will find a way to signal STOP!
Systemic Diagnosis & Migraine Headaches
Systemic relationship diagnosis of people who suffer migraine headaches often finds:
- Family members (or work colleagues) seem "too close"
or "tightly bonded'. There is little subjective space. A person may say "My family is so close that I
can hardly breathe".
- Family members (or work colleagues) are perceived as
a burden that cannot be avoided or denied - except by disease (or death).
- A parent or ancestral migraine sufferer may be felt
"inside" (identification) the person.
- The person controls or manipulates a family (or workplace)
through migraine headaches.
- A person feels trapped within one or more irrational beliefs or existential conflicts
Systemic Coaching Relief for Migraine
Following relationship diagnosis, systemic coaching can provide long-lasting
solutions for many people who suffer from migraine headaches. The solution sequence
we teach in our systemic coach training is:
- Clarify family relationships
- Resolve emotional trauma
- Resolve relationship bonds
- Resolve issues of guilt and shame
- End entanglements and identity loss
- Dissolve conflicts and objections about health
- Live life with integrity, meaning and purpose
Pain Control
Resolving the pain of migraines may help create a space to
establish long-term solutions. Our systemic coach training includes drug-free
methods of controlling pain.
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Long-Term Pain Control .
Stress Disorders
Consult your physician about any opinions about migraine or other medical conditions.
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