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It's easier for both health professionals and most
of their patients to use drugs as a substitute for change.
Self-medication with alcohol or nicotine, or prescription
anti-depressants and stimulants are easier than applying intelligence,
focus and analytical skills to complex relationship situations. Drugs
are also cheaper for the patient (in the short term) and more profitable
for the health professionals.
But the long-term consequences and side-effects of
psychoactive drugs are unacceptable to an increasing number of people.
What are Migraines?
Migraines are periodic severe headaches, with intense, throbbing,
sometimes blinding pain, and 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, and
others to overwork or "workaholism".
Migraine headaches may be preceded by visual patterns or
flashes, illusory tastes or odors, dizziness or faintness
or tingling or numbness in extremities.
Causes of Migraine Headaches
Migraine headaches may 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 reflects the systemic dynamics of the migraine sufferer's family and
workplace.
Managing Migraine Headaches with Drugs
Several prescription drugs can 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.
Some 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.
Systemic Causes of Migraine
If an ancestor also suffers migraines, then a family
knows how to care for a person suffering
from severe headaches. Migraine is often perceived as a
"family tradition" rather than as a genetic disease.
Like many other intermittent chronic diseases, migraine
headaches offer undeniable reasons for "time off" and "time away" -
people must stop and rest.
Systemic Diagnosis & Migraine
The relationship diagnosis of a person who suffers from
migraine headaches often includes:.
- Family members are perceived as "too close"
and "tightly bonded'. There is little or no subjective space. A person
with migraines 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 denied - except by disease.
- An ancestral migraine sufferer may be perceived as
"inside" (identification) the person.
- The person controls a family (or workplace)
through migraine headaches.
- A person feels trapped within one or more
irreconcilable or existential conflicts
Systemic Relief of Migraine
Following relationship diagnosis, systemic coaching can provide long-lasting
solutions for many people who suffer from migraine headaches. The overall
solution sequence of our systemic coaching is:
- Clarify family relationships
- End entanglements and identity loss
- Resolve issues of guilt and shame
- Dissolve conflicts and objections about health
- Experience integrity
- Resolve relationship bonds
- Resolve emotional trauma
Pain Control
Resolving the pain of migraines may help create a space to
establish long-term solutions. Soulwork health coaching includes drug-free
methods of controlling pain.
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Consult your physician regarding any opinions or recommendations with respect to migraine, medical
symptoms or medical conditions.
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