alt Hacker NewsI’m glad that it helped and that it worked for such a seemingly somatic issue. I wouldn’t have thought that.
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jodacola • today at 9:20 PM
I just listened to a fascinating podcast episode of Armchair Expert on pain psychology that went into such topics [0].
May not be some folks’ cup of tea, but I was sucked in and want to study more.
That's understandable. I went through a period of chronic pain and, had it continued, I likely wouldn't be alive today.
The mechanisms protecting us from non-existence by millions of years of evolution can be eroded by pain. It's not something you realize you even have to lose until you've experienced it firsthand. I certainly never expected it, and it's hard for me to imagine what I'd intended while going through it.