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Chronic Back Pain for Years

Spine Health | Last Active: Nov 21, 2021 | Replies (644)
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@wsh66

It won't go away but it may be more manageable. Controlling depression and stress are essential to pain management. How much pain we have is a physical metric. How we experience that pain is a psychological metric.

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grandmaR | @grandmar | Oct 12, 2020

So true! When suffering from pain for so long, it does get to you! That is why my pain doc sent me to a therapist.
Ronnie

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Jim, Volunteer Mentor | @jimhd | Oct 12, 2020

@wsh66
I've been through a 3 month pain therapy course, and seeing mental health therapists for 15 years, and very little of what they've told me to do has had any significant effect on my pain. I do use some of their recommendations, but severe neuropathy pain is mostly out of the scope of mental health treatments in my own experience.

Jim

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