Pain Stigma

Those of us who suf­fer chron­ic pain face a great deal of stig­ma. This paper address­es that stig­ma. Pain, objec­tiv­i­ty and his­to­ry: under­stand­ing pain stigma 

How Chronic Pain Leads to Anxiety and Depression

Neuronal plas­tic­i­ty in chron­ic pain-induced anx­i­ety revealed Hokkai­do Uni­ver­si­ty researchers have shown how chron­ic pain leads to mal­adap­tive anx­i­ety in mice, with impli­ca­tions for treat­ment of chron­ic pain-relat­ed psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders in humans. Chron­ic pain is per­sis­tent and inescapable, and can…

Poem: In Several Colors

In Sev­er­al Col­ors by Jane Keny­on From Col­lect­ed Poems Every morn­ing, cup of cof­fee in hand, I look out at the moun­tain. Ordi­nar­i­ly, it’s blue, but today it’s the col­or of an egg­plant. And the sky turns from gray to pale apri­cot as…

Poem: Myth Dispelled

Myth Dis­pelled –Adam Poss­ner, M.D. The flu vac­cine can­not give you the flu, I tell him. It’s dead virus, there’s noth­ing alive about it. It can’t make you sick. That’s a myth. But if we bury it in the grassy knoll of your shoul­der, an…

Poem: Love and Life

Love and Life by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester All my past life is mine no more; The fly­ing hours are gone, Like tran­si­to­ry dreams giv­en o’er, Whose images are kept in store By mem­o­ry alone. The time that is to come is not; How can…

Poem: the earth is a living thing

the earth is a liv­ing thing –Lucille Clifton From Col­lect­ed Poems of Lucille Clifton is a black sham­bling bear ruf­fling its wild back and toss­ing moun­tains into the sea is a black hawk cir­cling the bury­ing ground cir­cling the bones picked clean and discarded…

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