Thanks, nope I'm not currently dealing with pain. I have a history of migraines that ended as mysteriously as they began. The headache specialist that I saw for the at Mass General in Boston told me that science, at that time, didn't know what started them but that the person then usually had them forever. Glad that he was wrong! Though I occasionally get optic migraines, according to my ophthalmologist, and the are bizarre. But infrequently develop into a full-blown sensory-overliad throbbed.

The article resonated with me from when I had a bad back injury which resulted in four herniated discs. A pri football player told me about not overthinking pain as that could just increase awareness (which is fine) and a kind of hypertense body (which is counter-productive). He also Saud to be careful not to personalize it, to try to say the, instead of my, pain. Those two suggestions helped a lot and reminded me of your first point about pain. Also a TENS unit helped, maybe only as a security blanket though.