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Importance of focusing on Positive with Depression & Anxiety.

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Nov 7, 2022 | Replies (623)
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@linamend

I have traveled this pain-path for 51 years since a car accident when I was 21. I have never sought solace in alcohol or drugs. I never asked for disability compensation. I worked a high pressure job as a scientist for over 35 years. Hardly ever missed work. No one ever knew I was in pain because I projected a "positive persona".
Ah! Yes! The "invisible disability"! PAIN!

But inside. I'm dying. Sad, regretful I can't feel happy, I can only "pretend" to be ok.

I'm 72 years old and I'm still pretending since I have no choice. A 100 doctors, dozens of clinics, you all have been there. We do what we have to do.

Thanks for understanding. 😔 Lin

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Teresa, Volunteer Mentor | @hopeful33250 | Jul 6, 2022

Hello @linamend,

I just read several of your posts as well as some of the responses of the members of Connect. I would like to encourage you to try one more thing. Are you aware of the Pain Rehabilitation program at Mayo Clinic?

I would like to invite a Connect mentor, Rachel, @rwinney, to this discussion. She has suffered from chronic pain for a long time. She also attended this Pain Rehabilitation Clinic at Mayo and was helped.

If you have not yet met Rachel here is information from her profile:
"Rachel, Volunteer Mentor (@rwinney)
I'm a wife, mom of two, and CEO and Manager of my Central Nervous System. I have a chronic pain disorder called Central Sensitization Syndrome. I attended Mayo Clinic's Pain Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville, Florida. There, I learned how to better my path forward by living my best C-life possible. This quote by Dolly Parton sums it up nicely... "We can not direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails"."

Here is an overview of Mayo's Pain Rehabilitation Clinic, https://www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/pain-rehabilitation-center/sections/overview/ovc-20481691.

Do you think that you would be interested in learning more about this clinic?

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