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Wednesday Wonderings: blurred lines

Migraines are the kind of disease people like to discount. It is just a headache, they think. It is just a once a year deal,

The things people say just make me wonder sometimes. And irk me a little bit. Not enough to say anything because I’m a mellow

I am in pain. I don’t need to validate that pain to anyone. I cope with chronic illness and pain in many ways. I don’t

I am having a really hard time doing things that are important. It is important so I need to be functional. So I say I

I have said, often, repeatedly, that I can’t think through a migraine. One assumes it is the pain level. Or is it the migraine itself?

One of those darkest thoughts I have in high pain is this concept of ‘no end to the pain’. Of forever. The chronic nature of

The chronic pain and the chronic illness are not things we can control. They are a fact of life. Our perceptions, our beliefs, and reactions

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

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” — Philip K. Dick, VALIS I think it is hard to understand ‘normal’ when

So my psychologist asks these questions before he proceeds with this weird EMDR therapy for chronic pain. I don’t know if the EMDR therapy is