Psychiatric Illness and Fibromyalgia

Abstract

A review of the literature suggests that fibromyalgia is not a psychiatric illness. A subset of patients have major depression and there is evidence that stress may play an important role in fibromyalgia. Depression may be a biologic marker for fibromyalgia in some families with a spectrum of "affective disorders."

KEYWORDS:

• Fibromyalgia
• depression
• anxiety
• affective disorder
• somatization