It's like, not okay

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Trauma sensitizes the brain to pain
The cooccurrence between trauma and chronic pain is something like 50 per cent up to 80 per cent
So if you've had trauma your brain is extra sensitive to pain messages
Because pain messages are your bodies danger system
So if you've been traumatized your brain is like oh is something bad happening and how do I protect this human
If we're biologically wired to believe that pain means danger it's very hard to undo that
What's happening now is that your brain is scanning your environment
Looking for anything that might be dangerous
Small bits of sensory information create in your brain this amplified output
Because God bless your brain it is trying to protect you and that's what it thinks its doing by creating pain
Pain is your bodies warning system
But like every system in the human body the pain system can fail
So when we have chronic pain which we know is its own disease process
What is happening oftentimes is there's this amplification process happening
And small bits of sensory input are being interpreted as dangerous when in fact there's not danger

People with chronic pain frequently understandably and normally develop anxiety and depression secondary to their chronic pain because as we all know chronic pain is a thief
It steals your ability to work sometimes it steals your ability to play
It steals your ability to engage in your life in the way that your want to
And because of that a lot of people normally and naturally with chronic pain develop anxiety and depression
Chronic pain is stigmatized in part because people think there's a lot of mental illness around chronic pain
As someone who treats chronic pain everyday
I watch my patients get out of bed and get back to life as their pain goes down and they're able to function more their anxiety and depression magically f'ing goes away
What I want to make sure everyone knows if they have chronic pain
Anxiety and depression are what we call normal responses to an abnormal situation
This is not to say that you cant have some sort of mental illness prior to developing chronic pain and I am clearly not saying mental illness is not real like I'm a psychologist
But I do want to make sure to say that stigmatizing people with chronic pain and saying that everyone who has chronic pain is mentally ill is just like not okay
It's like not okay

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