Beth Benoit writes on 1 Oct 99,:
> Like Annette's husband, I learned growing up that any pain and health problems
> are very serious and should be accorded _great_ attention. My twin sister and
> I rejected this attitude, while our younger sister seems to be following our
> mother's path of hysteria and malingering over any health situation. I offer
> the suggestion that people can, of course, have a great need for attention.
> Addiction to it? Well, in the light of the belief of some that a person can
> be addicted to anything, my guess is this would fit the description of
> addiction.
I think I started this thread with a question about whether some medicines
are less addictive when they are given for pain than when they are used
recreationally. It has been very informative in that regard. It is ironic that the
thread has eventually come around (in the contents of Beth's post excerpted
above) to an interest of one of my students. She would like to do research
on the possibility that some athletes spend a great deal of unnecessary time
in the training room while others don't. She thought it could be due to an
individual difference in the need for (medical?) attention but a PsycINFO
search of attention and related terms didn't seem to turn up anything useful.
Does anyone know of at least one reference that could give her a start? TIA,
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman
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