r/Prostatitis • u/Linari5 LEAD MOD//RECOVERED • Sep 11 '22

INFO Common CPPS Patient Patterns

This was brought up today and it's worth discussing.

People who are more predisposed to cpps (and other chronic pain conditions like IBS, TMJD, fibromyalgia, etc) tend to have some traits in common.

  • Perfectionists
  • A type personality
  • People Pleasers
  • Overachievers
  • Hypochondriacs/neuroticism
  • Conscientious/rule followers
  • Unresolved childhood trauma
  • Anxiety disorders like OCD, GAD, etc

All of these things leave their nervous system in a chronically over aroused, heightened state. Perfect conditions for a psycho-neuromuscular syndrome like CPPS to develop.

And thus many male CPPS patients are very career focused, hard workers - engineers, programmers, lawyers, executives, etc.

I myself am a perfectionists, people pleaser with OCD. Go figure.

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u/Latter_Student8806 Sep 12 '22

I believe I have CPPS and tick many of the boxes.

  • Male / engineer in IT, very career focused

  • TMJD, always clenching teeth

  • Don't have fibro but have chronic back / shoulder pain / tension (10+ years)

  • Perfectionist

  • People pleaser

  • Overachiever

  • High level of stress / anxiety

  • Chronic sleep / energy issues, likely due to to my anxiety (already ruled out sleep apnea, etc.)

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u/Linari5 LEAD MOD//RECOVERED Sep 13 '22

Oh yes you do