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Article was published in Journal of Pain. The author, Lorimer Moseley, is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow who worked at Oxford University from 2009-2011. His primary research concerns clinical studies of chronic pain and discomfort. Mosley critiques and analyzes the overall body of research surrounding the Fear-Avoidance Model (FAM). He summarizes that, while the model may be somewhat simplistic for every situation involving fear and/or chronic pain and discomfort, he acknowledges its effectiveness for diagnosing and understanding how humans can react, either positively or negatively, to fear and anxiety.

This article discusses a study published in the journal, The Lancet Psychiatry, in which cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) were used to reduce fatigue and improve physical function in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Researchers found that reducing fears about presumed harm from physical activity and exercise was key to stimulating subjects to resume their normal daily activities and reducing chronic fatigue. Thus, analysis of fear-avoidance models and reduction of fear-avoidance beliefs in patients was the primary source of patient health recovery. No author is listed.

This "self-help" article is designed more for general audiences, written by Eddie Selby, an NIMH Predoctoral Research Fellow and doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Florida State University, originally published through Psychology Today. The author discusses how fear-avoidance, or avoidance of anxiety influences our everyday lives and can prevent us from taking risks, facing our fears, and exploring new life experiences. Selby stresses that, through fear and anxiety avoidance and negative reinforcement, we repeatedly sabotage ourselves by not understanding the root causes of our anxieties, and exactly how we react to them. By understanding the source of our fears and breaking down how we respond to them, we can learn to face, overcome, and eventually diminish our fears.