"Once you accept the pain, you're able to make adjustments so you don’t aggravate it" (:56)
Rebecca, a fibromyalgia patient, explains how coming to terms with your pain enables you to manage it.
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Depression and Pain
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Build Your Pain Team
Get them to work for you
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Being Friends With Pain
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Joy Is a Painkiller
Distraction can help
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How have you come to terms with your pain?
Rebecca, 52, has been living with fibromyalgia for more than 30 years. After struggling without proper treatment for years, she took control of her disease and utilized alternative therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic manipulation to achieve pain control. She used to describe her pain as a nine or a 10 and now she finds it’s a one or a two. She has written a book to help others like her,
Beyond Chronic Pain: A Get-Well Guidebook to Soothe the Body, Mind, and Spirit. In this video, Rebecca explains that when people are first diagnosed with chronic pain they go through stages of grief like denial and anger before they reach acceptance. Finally coming to peace with your condition enables you to manage your life so that you lessen your pain.
Depression and PainThe need to treat both
Build Your Pain TeamGet them to work for you
Being Friends With PainHow to move past it
Joy Is a PainkillerDistraction can help
