11/06/2017
"If you have chronic pain, don’t blame yourself. Don’t scold yourself for overthinking; don’t wonder if you’re crazy. Your body is just doing what it was always going to do, in response to whatever stress/pain/injury you experienced."
- Christy, the writer of this blog series on Central Sensitization, has great insight on chronic pain and why we should believe that it is not "just in our head". The pain is real and is a nervous system problem, not a mental health problem.
https://sunlightinwinter.com/2017/03/13/how-clifford-woolf-discovered-central-sensitization-and-why-you-shouldnt-blame-yourself-for-chronic-pain/