Try psychotherapy.
There are 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain, and an unknown number of them are like Golson, with back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia symptoms, or other forms of pain that have no diagnosed physical cause.
It’s not that their pain is “in their heads.” The truth is much more nuanced: All pain can have both physical and psychological components. But the psychological component is often dismissed or never acknowledged.
Big pharma won’t like this as they make unknown billions every year selling pain meds.
Pain can be manufactured in your head and in your body
Pain, explained
Psychotherapy helps you tell a new story about pain
The best evidence base is for cognitive behavioral therapy
(Psychological treatments are no cure-all for chronic pain.)
Psychological therapies can get better — and so can access to them
(There’s still a lot researchers don’t know…)
We need medical and psychological treatments for pain. But we also need to recognize that medical treatments have been overused.
The whole thing @ 100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it. - Vox - Pocket
There are 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain, and an unknown number of them are like Golson, with back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia symptoms, or other forms of pain that have no diagnosed physical cause.
It’s not that their pain is “in their heads.” The truth is much more nuanced: All pain can have both physical and psychological components. But the psychological component is often dismissed or never acknowledged.
Big pharma won’t like this as they make unknown billions every year selling pain meds.
Pain can be manufactured in your head and in your body
Pain, explained
Psychotherapy helps you tell a new story about pain
The best evidence base is for cognitive behavioral therapy
(Psychological treatments are no cure-all for chronic pain.)
Psychological therapies can get better — and so can access to them
(There’s still a lot researchers don’t know…)
We need medical and psychological treatments for pain. But we also need to recognize that medical treatments have been overused.
The whole thing @ 100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it. - Vox - Pocket