Sir: My age and symptoms are similar, although only just roughly 2.5 years since beginning. As nerve damage is not easily repairable I've done some thinking about taking the brain, which rationalizes the pain experienced, OUT of the process. That has led me to psychotherapy (or CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy) and I have discovered an article which has helped me a lot. There is not an internet hyperlink to the article so I am inserting a couple of the article identifier numbers as follows: PMCID: PMC3000182
PMID: 21152145. I suggest you Google one, or other number, or both.
I hope you can find this article this way, If not, I will try to cut and paste it to you via some other means