7 things everyone should know about chronic pain: Rewriting the chronic pain narrative

New neuroscience changes everything we thought we knew about chronic pain. In this awesome conversation, Charlie Merrill, PT, and Deb Malkin, Health Coach, walk us through the 7 most important things people need to understand about chronic pain. Did you know that pain can and often does start without any injury to the body? Did you know that there's a very strong connection between fear levels and our experience of pain? Learn about all this and more.

0:00 Intro
3:09 100% of pain is generated by the brain
6:52 Pain can start w/o injury to the body
11:17 Fear and pain are correlated
19:04 You can unlearn pain
27:14 Movement & exercise prove safety to the brain
32:23 Self-care matters
38:48 Q&A

[vitamind]

Thank you both. When I stopped listening to my fears today and hear what you were saying, I learned a few things.

[redtom]

The pain doesn't go away first. Explains a lot to me.

[vitamind]

It just occurred to me - where possible, I have in the past, run away from fears - stress, anger, unworthiness, guilt, helplessness and so on. I’ve moved house, State, even Country 😂! I’ve done a lot of self work. Maybe I’m meant to stand and fight now; to trust myself.

[vitamind]

How is the brain helping by causing the pain. In my current state I could neither fight or take flight. An analogy to describe what I’d be capable of if there was danger is hide and be very still and hope for the best, like a baby animal.

[Ksrecipelife]

Some people can’t to get out of pain physically because of things like cancer that just aren’t going to get better when they only have a few months/weeks to live-incurable conditions. Some people cannot get out of pain mentally because of current abuse. It would be nice if this was recognized instead of telling people to expand themselves. There are those things that just can’t be cured by “treating themselves better”