ABSTRACT
Fibromyalgia is a medical mystery – patients experience chronic, excruciating, but non-specific and non-identifiable pain all over their bodies, along with cognitive difficulties, fatigue and many other more bizarre symptoms. Opinion is split, with some doctors believing it to be a psychosomatic conversion disorder, brought on by emotional distress and instability, while others think it is due to damage to the central nervous system. This chapter goes through the various clinical arguments and gives an overview of the medical uncertainty and controversy that has attached itself to fibromyalgia and similar conditions.
