Contrary to my lengthy and sad post in the "other" thread, I do believe this theory. Whatever you call it "talking to onesself" "mind over matter" meditation, Yoga...while we can't "think" ourselves out of PD, we can control how we move through life.

I have always considered my PD not to be a burden, but to be a partner of sorts. I walk with it, I don't live through it. My depression is in no way connected to my PD, but to my past 58 years of living.

There is tons of information on the Internet about:
Power of a super attitude, USA Today, Updated 10/12/2004 8:04 PM

Self-Healing, Patents, and Placebos, 1989, National Library of Medicine

The Power of Positive Thinking, PsychCentral, May 29, 2006

Mental Health Problems and Mind-Body Wellness - Positive Thinking, WebMD,

1. Create positive expectations for health and healing.
2. Open yourself to humor, friendship, and love.
3. Appeal to a higher power.

The list goes on. The hard part for some of us is believing...having faith that life is good regardless of the circumstance.

Create positive expectations for health and healing...hummm...the only way I can relate to this to say right now my health is poor...I know it but I am doing something about it. My internist told me just yesterday in a very nice way to "get off my tush" and walk 30 minutes a day. I have gained 9 lbs since I stopped driving. Today, I walked 40-mins round trip to day to a doctors appointment rather than arrange for a ride via the county transit.

Open yourself to humor, friendship, and love...I just posted The Husband Store in the "let's lighten up" thread. I heard this joke at the doctor's office. Laughter is good medicine. Laughing at least once a day should be a priority for everyone on planet earth...easy for me to say...right!

Appeal to a higher power...now this is where I can hear my mother on the phone telling me to get back to church (the daughter of an Episcopal Decan and the widow of a Priest). If I would just do that my life problems would be solved. I have a hard time believing this, and I KNOW Peg will come back in here and debate the point with me.

Thanks for this thought provoking thread, Peg I look forward to hearing other opinion of this topic.