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"Of hurting you could wish only one affair: that it should stop. Nada in the world was so bad equally concrete hurting. In the face of hurting at that place are no heroes."
― George Orwell, 1984

"Mental illness

People assume y'all aren't sick
unless they see the sickness on your skin
like scars forming a map of all the means you're hurting.

My heart is a prison house of Take yous tried?s
Have you tried exercising? Have you tried eating better?
Have you tried not existence sad, not being sick?
Have you tried being more similar me?
Take you tried shutting up?

Yes, I have tried. Yeah, I am nevertheless trying,
and yes, I am still sick.

Sometimes monsters are invisible, and
sometimes demons attack y'all from the within.
Just because you cannot run into the claws and the teeth
does not mean they aren't ripping through me.
Pain does not need to be seen to be felt.

Telling me there is no trouble
won't solve the trouble.

This is not how miracles are built-in.
This is not how sickness works."
― Emm Roy, The First Step

"Few things a doc does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; hither, of all places, it should not exist strained."
― Marcia Angell

"Having a chronic illness, Molly thought, was like being invaded. Her grandmother back in Michigan used to tell about the 24-hour interval one of their cows got loose and wandered into the parlor, and the awful time they had getting her out. That was exactly what Molly'due south arthritis was like: as if some big old cow had got into her house and wouldn't go away. It just sat there, taking upwardly infinite in her life and making everything more difficult, mooing loudly from fourth dimension to time and making cow pies, and all she could practice actually was border around it and put up with it.

When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed business concern and feet. They suggested strategies for getting the beast out of Molly'due south parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. Merely later on a while they had exhausted their suggestions. And so they commonly began to pretend that the cow wasn't in that location, and they preferred for Molly to proceed with the pretense."
― Alison Lurie, The Last Resort

"The trouble with chronic pain is that it is then piece of cake to become accepted to it, both mentally and physically. At starting time it's absolutely agonizing; it's the only thing yous recollect about, like a rock in your shoe that rubs your pes raw with every step. So the constant rubbing, the pain and the limp all go role of the status quo, the occasional stabbing pain just a reminder.
Yous are then set to endure, hunched confronting it - and when it starts to ease, you don't really observe, until the absence washes over you lot like a balm."
― Robert J. Wiersema

"I frequently wished that more than people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really."
― Jennifer Starzec, Determination

"If I merely could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was gratuitous
from the shackles of chronic pain."
― Jenni Johanna Toivonen

"People who don't see you every mean solar day accept a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--yous can run 3 miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly."
― Jennifer Starzec, Conclusion

"If your torso is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, low, asthma or arthritis, a first step in releasing the pain may be making the connection between your body hurting and the cause. "Beliefs are physical. A thought held long plenty and repeated plenty becomes a belief. The belief then becomes biological science."
― Marilyn Van M. Derbur, Miss America by Twenty-four hours

"The stigma of chronic pain is one of the nearly difficult aspects of living with chronic pain. If you accept chronic pain, people can sometimes judge you for it. Specifically, they tin can sometimes disapprovingly judge you for how you are coping with information technology. If y'all rest or nap because of the pain, they call back you rest or nap likewise much. If they catch y'all crying, they become impatient and remember you cry as well much. If you don't work because of the hurting, you confront scrutiny over why you lot don't. If yous become to your healthcare provider, they inquire, "Are you going to the doctor again?" Mayhap, they think that y'all take too many medications. In whatsoever of these ways, they disapprove of how you are coping with hurting. These disapproving judgments are the stigma of living with chronic hurting."
― Murray J. McAlister

"Sometimes, this disapproval of how y'all are managing your pain crosses over to atheism that yous are in as much pain as you say you are. They don't believe that your pain is a legitimate plenty reason to rest or nap or cry or have narcotic medications or not become to work or to go to the doctor. They might think that you are making too big of a deal out of it. They uncertainty the legitimacy of the pain itself.

This kind of stigma is the source of the dreaded accusation that chronic pain is "all in your caput." It's as if to say that you are making a mountain out of a molehill."
― Murray J. McAlister

"Lily had lived with the same hurting for so long information technology felt like a part of her. The worst days, though, were when the pain was different. When it came faster, or harsher, or fiercer than she was used to. When it prickled instead of throbbed. When it attacked her right ankle instead of her left knee. When it woke her up at nighttime instead of aching dully showtime matter in the morning. On those days, her standard-issue hurting was replaced by something different and frightening, something that took over her trunk and left her without the slightest clue of when, or even if, it would release her.

Those times, her pain wasn't a function of her anymore. Those times, she was a function of it."
― Robin Talley, Every bit I Descended

"A common misconception is that some people are only in hurting because they are weak, anxious, depressed, or do not deal well with stress. This is not correct.
Every experience you have — touch, warmth, itch, pain — is created by the brain and thus is all in your head, just it does not hateful they are not real.

Things like fearfulness, feet, or depression tin increase pain levels and can increment the chance of persistent pain. Merely often, these feelings merely develop after a person already has chronic hurting."
― Tasha Stanton

"I'grand in pain all the fourth dimension,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do goose egg."
― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne

"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."
― Veronica Roth

"Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing."
― Anna Hamilton

"Usually I take this opportunity to say something inspiring, almost how my disease has changed me for the better and given me a clear purpose in life for both the work I practice and the person I want to be. While all these things are true, the fact is that sometimes I'yard in a physical land where I just don't have it in me to exist inspirational. And that'due south all right – inspirational words are meaningless without the context of 18-carat human struggle."
― Michael Bihovsky

"Information technology's a bittersweet feeling to finally name what ails you later on so long. On the i mitt it's a relief because you tin can finally take activity. On the other, endometriosis tin feel overwhelming. There isn't enough useful data well-nigh information technology, nothing that encapsulates its extensive nature or defines the all-involving path to recovery - except this volume which is mind-blowingly relatable, relieving, and helpful. - from the forward, written past Bojana Novakovic"
― Amy Stein, Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis

"One matter I detest about being ill is that no one believes it unless I share it all with them, and even then they don't act on information technology."
― Gillian Polack, Borderlanders

"What, am I supposed to feel guilty?" I say.

He looks confused. "Guilty?"

"That I feel fine for once? That I'm not limping and moaning effectually? Dragging my leg like Briana? Lying on the flooring, crying into my ears when everyone else around me rolls their optics? I'1000 supposed to feel bad that I'g better now? I'm supposed to cry over a picayune cut. To what? To make you lot experience like I'm not a monster. I need to perform my little bit of pain for you so you lot'll know I'm human?"

"Miranda, I didn't mean—"

"But not also much pain, am I right? Not too much, never likewise much. If it was too much, you wouldn't know what to practise with me, would you? Also much would make y'all uncomfortable. Bored. My crying would get out a bad sense of taste. That would only be bad theater, wouldn't it? A bad show. Yous want a proficient show. They all exercise. A few pretty tears on my cheeks that you tin can castor away. Only a fragile little bit of ouch so yous know there'south someone in there. So you don't get too scared of me, am I right? So you know I'm withal a vulnerable thing. That I can be brought down if need be."
― Mona Awad, All's Well

"The proper management of pain remains, after all, the most important obligation, the chief objective and the crowning accomplishment of every physician."
― Dr John J. Bonica

"Endo doesn't just affect the pelvic region. The torso'south response to the inflammation it causes sensitizes the central nervous system, and if yous don't know what's going on - equally I didn't - this sensitization ***** with your head. If your head'due south not right, at that place'southward a good hazard you're in distress. This is where endo crosses the line from a physical ailment to an emotional 1 also. -- from the forward, written by Bojana Novakovic"
― Amy Stein, Beating Endo: How to Reclaim Your Life from Endometriosis

"Every EDS patient knows that i of the hardest parts of our day is the moment we open our eyes and waken into the reality of our bodies."
― Michael Bihovsky

"Every EDS patient knows that one of the hardest parts of our day is the moment nosotros open our eyes and waken into the reality of our bodies, stirred from dreams of ourselves as nosotros used to exist, and the futures we imagined we'd take."
― Michael Bihovsky

"We cannot outrun our past trauma. Nosotros can't bury information technology and think that we will be fine. We cannot skip the essential phase of processing, accepting, and doing the hard, withal necessary trauma recovery work. There's a body-mind connection. Trauma tin can manifest itself into chronic concrete hurting, cancer, inflammation, car-immune conditions, depression, feet, PTSD, Circuitous PTSD, addictions, and ongoing medical atmospheric condition."
― Dana Arcuri, Certified Trauma Recovery Coach, Soul Rescue: How to Break Costless From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma

"My body is unlike and strange and new to me, and I have to be kind to it. I take to learn this version of myself and love her like she deserves.
But at present, I know I'1000 telling the truth when I say, "I'm going to exist fine." -"
― Zoraida Córdova, Bruja Born

"I have another browse this calendar week," I say lightly, hoping to reassure my loved ones that information technology is prophylactic to rejoin my orbit. There is always some other browse, considering this is my reality. But the people I know are often busy contending with mildly painful ambition and the possibility of advantage. I try to begrudge them nothing, except I'm not alongside them anymore.
In the concurrently, I have been hunkering downward with old medical supplies and swelling resentment. I tried— haven't I tried? — to avert fights and remember birthdays. I showed upwardly for dance recitals and listened to weight-loss dreams and kept the granularity of my medical treatments in soft focus. A person like that would be easier to love, I reasoned.
I endeavor a modest experiment and stop calling my regular rotation of friends and family, hoping that they volition call me dorsum on their own. _This is not a examination. This is not a exam._ The phone goes quiet, except for a handful of calls. I feel heavy with strange new grief. Is it biting or unkind to desire everyone to recall what I can't forget? Who wants to be confronted with the reality that we are all a breath away from a problem that could modify our lives completely? A friend with a very sick kid said information technology best: I'm everyone'due south inspiration and and no one's friend.
I am asked all the time to say that, given what I've gained in perspective, I would never go back. Who would desire to know the truth? Before was improve."
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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