Accept pain
It's often the struggle with chronic pain and its related conditions like anxiety, depression, and fatigue that is the worst part of having pain, not the pain itself.
The struggle can make it easy to be distressed and feel like a victim.
To minimize the struggle, it's helpful to come to terms with the pain as your "new normal," accepting the pain as a part of life with no magical medical cure, not focusing on the pain, and not needing to reduce it or avoid it to participate in life.
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The struggle can make it easy to be distressed and feel like a victim.
To minimize the struggle, it's helpful to come to terms with the pain as your "new normal," accepting the pain as a part of life with no magical medical cure, not focusing on the pain, and not needing to reduce it or avoid it to participate in life.
Learn more
- Hopping Off the Pain Merry-go-round (my article)
- Pain and Me: Tamar Pincus talks about chronic pain, acceptance, and commitment (3:06)
- Trapped by Chronic Pain? Break Free and Take Back Your Life (my book)
External links are not maintained by or in any way affiliated with Chronic Pain Champions, LLC, and are provided for information only as a convenience. They don't constitute an endorsement, representation, or warranty of any third party. If you decide to access a linked website, you do so at your own risk. Your use of other websites is subject to the terms of use for such sites.
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