Understanding chronic pain
Chronic pain is very important—so important, in fact, that we must understand it as it really is and treat it in a way that works. Here’s what we have to do:
1. We must divorce chronic pain from acute pain.
2. We have to give up the idea that there is something seriously wrong with us.
Many CPS sufferers harbor the belief that they really have cancer or some other catastrophic disease, which no doctor has managed to find as yet. So they continue to doctor shop, spend money, and fall deeper into the doldrums of the seven D’s. If you’ve been checked out thorough y, with appropriate examinations and medical tests, and nothing wrong has been found, you must surrender the notion that you are in great jeopardy.
Instead you must focus on understanding the truth:
1. Chronic pain poses no danger to your body.
2. Your pain is real. You do feel it. It’s not “all in your head.”
3. Chronic pain is not a moral failing. It does no good to put yourself down for having it. You should not compare yourself with other people who did not develop chronic pain after a similar illness or injury.
4. Chronic pain is not helped by “resting.” Inactivity only weakens your body and sets you up for more pain.
5. Ultimately chronic pain isn’t helped by painkillers, either. Instead these drugs may lower your pain threshold, and you may find, over time, that you need more of them. They also inhibit your ability to focus on overcoming pain.
6. Chronic pain does not have to be forever.
7. You don’t have to know the causes of chronic pain in order to feel better.
Now you understand that you need to buy Celebrex right now.
