“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use… — S. E. Smith Copy Share Image
The only way to truly understand someones chronic pain...is to experience that pain yourself, which you probably never will. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
“Terry recalled far better days when she'd risen bright and early every morning… Days before darkness had closed in and refused to… — Dawn M. Turner Copy Share Image
“Surrender is an incredibly difficult topic in light of chronic illness, because loss is often continued and sustained.” — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
“I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.” — Jennifer Starzec Copy Share Image
It's all been a blessing, just being able to focus on my health and redouble the efforts on recovery. It's been a… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
“He spoke three simple sentences and I understood why my injuries are permanent. Every hard moment, all the pain, had prepared me… — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I had to relearn how to walk in the hospital and missed about two and a half, three months of school. After… — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
“Every EDS patient knows that one of the hardest parts of our day is the moment we open our eyes and waken… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
“Our circumstances might be abject, we might not think we can survive for one more day enslaved to illness, but God says,… — Cindee Snider Re Copy Share Image
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But… — Donna Marsh Copy Share Image
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“When all you know is pain you don’t know that that is not normal. It is not a woman’s lot to suffer,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We have a genuine and devastating epidemic of opiate abuse in this country, and it is of critical importance that this problem… — Michael Bihovsky Copy Share Image
“We already have intriguing evidence that some types of chronic pain work by prediction. Animals who have stress or injury early in… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“My mom’s in jail right now for assault with a deadly weapon, which was pretty stupid of her, I admit. But she… — Joanna Wylde Copy Share Image
“Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed… — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options… — Sonya Huber Copy Share Image
We all know that as we form thoughts, they form deep channels in our minds and in our brains. Chronic pain is… — Christopher deCharms Copy Share Image
“Which would give her an ulcer first? All the aspirin and prescription pain medication she took, or Jack Carlton? Then again, that… — Dawn M. Turner Copy Share Image
“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much… — Howard L. Fields Copy Share Image
“There’s such a thing as chronic pain, but there’s no such thing as chronic pleasure. ... For an existing person, the presence… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“I described a program that is in wide use across the country to treat chronic pain. It bears repeating here that treating… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's… — Herbert Benson Copy Share Image
“We may deny that an event occurred, or we may act as though it was unimportant. For instance, when someone we love… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about… — Alison Moore Copy Share Image
Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage,… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“If your body is screaming in pain, whether the pain is muscular contractions, anxiety, depression, asthma or arthritis, a first step in… — Marilyn Van M. Derbur Copy Share Image
“A common misconception is that some people are only in pain because they are weak, anxious, depressed, or do not deal well… — Tasha Stanton Copy Share Image
“The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none… — John Green Copy Share Image
