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Pain Vs Chronic Pain

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Everyone suffers some pain in their lives from injuries of various severities and this is usually a person’s only reference point for the experience of pain: it is caused by an injury, it hurts for some time, and the pain fades as the injury heals. One day you wake up and the pain is gone. Now imagine instead of healing, the pain lingers and gets worse, not by the day, but by the hour. So, by the end of the day, you just want to crawl up in a ball and cry yourself to sleep. Chronic pains persistent, pervasive, and permanent nature is almost incomprehensible and I suffered through it for the better part of 8 years. If there’s no evidence of bodily damage or injury, people seem more willing to believe we’re making it up or imagining it. They
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