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The pain facade of a person with migraine

Day 16 of migraine awareness challenge If we’re ever going to break down stigma, we must first become visible. That requires each of us to

I wonder how this game would go with chronic migraines. A lot of screaming and clutching our heads? Maybe it would make us more visible,

I often wonder what people think about my bad days. When I cannot leave the house. When I cannot work. I get this impression from

When people ask me how I am feeling 99% of the time I am lying. I often say ‘not bad’, because I feel it is

There are a few reasons why people with chronic pain wear a facade of wellbeing or mask their pain from others. Some of those reasons

The chronic pain facade is always an interesting topic for me because it is instinctual. We all rapidly develop it to some degree and generally

There is an aspect of fake it till you make it about the chronic pain facade. That is that we fake dealing with it until

I wonder if this is something we could say to people to understand chronic illness. “The difference between you and me is that when you

I love this image. Just makes me think about the reality of chronic pain and what we actually choose to express about chronic pain. Keep

“The single most clever thing about a smile is how well it can hide sadness.” Smiles and laughter can hide sadness, suffering, and pain immensely

Surface There you see, the smiling me A facade I created, A game I concocted, Just for you. All of you. Beneath the surface,

One thing we learn when we have chronic pain fairly early on is the Facade. That we should to some degree mask our pain for

I have literally been called ‘stoic’ by a doctor. I have talked about it on my blog before how I have developed this tendency.