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Mind Reading: How to Cope with Pain Series
No, this post is not about telepathy. It’s about a common problem faced by people with chronic pain and how to overcome it. Mind reading defined The phrase “mind reading” is a piece of technical jargon...
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The Perfectionist and Chronic Pain: How to Cope with Pain Series
While clinical lore is that perfectionists are more prone to the development of chronic pain, it may just be that perfectionists are more likely to seek care for their chronic pain. Reason?...
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Overcoming Perfectionism
In the last post, we discussed the nature of perfectionism and the problems associated with it. Specifically, we reviewed how perfectionism is problematic and how perfectionism leads to poor coping...
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Coping: Ideas that Change Pain
Coping-based healthcare is often misunderstood in society and, as a result, it is commonly neglected by healthcare providers and patients alike. Examples of such care are chronic pain rehabilitation...
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Developing an Observational Self: How to Cope with Pain Series
From the time before Socrates in ancient Greece there stood a temple built upon a spring at a location the Greeks would have considered the center of the world. Inscribed on the walls of this holy...
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Can you experience the same pain differently?
A major tenet of chronic pain rehabilitation is that the way you experience pain is not the only possible way to experience pain. In other words, the experience of pain differs across individuals and...
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How to Get Better When Pain is Chronic
In the last post, we began to introduce a broad definition of coping, as one’s subjective experience, or reaction, to a problem. In this post, let’s expand on this definition and explain how coming to...
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What Would You Do If You Had Less Pain?
Everything More of What I am Doing Already Clean My House Go Back to Work Exercise 1. If you chose Everything, you are among a noble, but misguided group of people who are thoroughly frustrated by...
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What Would You Do If You Had Less Pain? (Part 2)
Spend More Time with Loved Ones Travel Be More Independent Enjoy Life More Be In a Better Mood 6. If you answered Spend More Time with Loved Ones, it is clear that family and friends are a top value...
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Treatment Plan: Do Nothing?
It’s cold and flu season again and we all do the best we can to stay well and avoid catching an all-too-contagious virus. We each have our own go-to plans of how to fight it: vitamin C, zinc or...
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