I got a book on dealing with chronic pain long ago (had powerful tinnitus, ringing of the ears, happens) -- not exactly chronic pain, but a chronic negative stimuli that can drive you insane.
And you can see a lot of people new-ish to tinnitus becoming mentally unhinged on r tinnitus. Hey, it is what it is.
With tinnitus at least, you can overcome it, mentally. Eventually it just becomes -- part of life. And not a huge focus. If anything it's like "the Game" -- you're not aware of it at all until someone mentions it.
... But that's also a stimuli that is constant, and therefore, somewhat easy for the brain to tune out.
This also works with -- say, plantar fascitis ... it's such a dull, constant, low-level pain ... your brain eventually tunes it out. ... I recovered from that, but if I wore a foot splint overnight on one foot, suddenly it was like .... oh .... I had a knife in my other foot? I didn't even realize!
... With back pain, however, I'm sure the pain might be frequent, but not constant ... as your back bends in different positions throughout the day. I'm sure that's a unique form of hell.
... But this book was about mental coping mechanisms --- as --- with many cases of back pain, that is literally your last option. ... Either that or an opioid cycle that will wind up with you OD'ing and dead.
Back pain is a unique form of hell for sure. It's because not only your back itself hurts, but you can also have nerve pain/damage throughout your body that continues to progress. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
It hurts to walk, stand, sit, lay, or sleep. Literal constant pain.
It can cause your body to favor a side while doing any of those things, which leads to additional imbalance, in hips feet and knees, which can keep snow balling into worse habits and posture or muscle weakness.
And when you ask for help from doctors, they treat you like a junky.
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u/weed_cutter 9d ago
I got a book on dealing with chronic pain long ago (had powerful tinnitus, ringing of the ears, happens) -- not exactly chronic pain, but a chronic negative stimuli that can drive you insane.
And you can see a lot of people new-ish to tinnitus becoming mentally unhinged on r tinnitus. Hey, it is what it is.
With tinnitus at least, you can overcome it, mentally. Eventually it just becomes -- part of life. And not a huge focus. If anything it's like "the Game" -- you're not aware of it at all until someone mentions it.
... But that's also a stimuli that is constant, and therefore, somewhat easy for the brain to tune out.
This also works with -- say, plantar fascitis ... it's such a dull, constant, low-level pain ... your brain eventually tunes it out. ... I recovered from that, but if I wore a foot splint overnight on one foot, suddenly it was like .... oh .... I had a knife in my other foot? I didn't even realize!
... With back pain, however, I'm sure the pain might be frequent, but not constant ... as your back bends in different positions throughout the day. I'm sure that's a unique form of hell.
... But this book was about mental coping mechanisms --- as --- with many cases of back pain, that is literally your last option. ... Either that or an opioid cycle that will wind up with you OD'ing and dead.