16 years of pain almost everyday now… I know that is just unfathomable for a healthy person to understand. This type of long-term ongoing pain affects EVERYTHING in a person’s life. Work is challenged, relationships, the ability for someone to care for themselves, or their children… it can make exercise and eating well very challenging to work through the pain, and to have the inner strength to continue to do the things needed to be “healthy” while a body is continuing to hurt. It becomes challenging to stay in a positive frame of mind… it strains a persons patience and can lead to ongoing anxiety and depression struggles.
Chronic pain is a reality for millions world-wide every day and is a particularly kind of extreme ongoing life stress which makes facing every other aspect of life more challenging. Please if this is your friend, partner, daughter, son, mother father, co-worker, classmate, church member, reach out to give support, an ear to listen, offer to do a small chore, make a meal, go to the grocery store, cut the grass… any little thing is GREATLY appreciated when a person’s body is full of pain everyday!
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