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The Mental & Emotional Hell of Living With Chronic Pain

2020

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The mental and emotional effects of living day after day, year after year with chronic pain are very real and can a lot of times be just as bad or even worse than the actual physical pain. See more...

04:50 min

7 Tips for Making Peace with Chronic Pain and Illness

New ideas for living well, even if our health is less than ideal.

Toni Bernhard J.D.

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Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal

Anthony William, Medical Medium, has helped tens of thousands of people heal from ailments that have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated or that doctors can’t resolve.

Anthony William

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How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide

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Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer Over 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free

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Wired for Healing: Remapping the Brain to Recover from Chronic and Mysterious Illnesses

Wired for healing sheds light on how trauma causes the brain to disorganize neural circuits and shares triumphant stories of recovery of people who have been liberated from chronic and mysterious illnesses through remapping the brain.

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The Body Neutrality Movement as an Alternative to Body Positivity?

Body neutrality, I think, has the power to be really useful in particular to people with disabilities, especially those with chronic pain or people with progressive diagnoses.

How the Body Positivity Movement Left Us Disabled Women Behind

“Body positivity is all about having a good relationship with your body.” Well that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The only problem is, if I told anyone about the way my body treats me, they would tell me it’s a relationship I need to get the hell out of.

Jennifer Richards

Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

My Medicaid, My Life

The reality of being a disabled person on Medicaid is far more complex and nuanced. Many people do not even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and simply consider them “entitlement programs,” as if tax breaks and corporate subsidies aren’t entitlements by another name.

About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times

Based on the historic New York Times series, About Us features intimate, firsthand accounts on what it means, and how it feels, to live with a disability.

Peter Catapano (editor), Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (editor), Andrew Solomon (foreword)

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