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sasha_feather) wrote2017-12-05 07:24 pm
sasha_feather) wrote2017-12-05 07:24 pm
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Research on facial pain
My friend Jesse sent me these two links. The TLDR is: head and facial pain is more emotionally devastating than the same pain in other parts of the body.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pain-craniofacial/brain-pathway-makes-head-and-face-pain-very-draining-idUSKBN1DH295
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-017-0012-1 (abstract only; article is pay walled).
A lot of what I experience in regards to my pain is invalidating: doctors not seeming to take my pain as seriously as I want them to, for instance, and being denied for disability benefits. The general ableism of society also contributes to these feelings.
These articles are validating.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pain-craniofacial/brain-pathway-makes-head-and-face-pain-very-draining-idUSKBN1DH295
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-017-0012-1 (abstract only; article is pay walled).
A lot of what I experience in regards to my pain is invalidating: doctors not seeming to take my pain as seriously as I want them to, for instance, and being denied for disability benefits. The general ableism of society also contributes to these feelings.
These articles are validating.
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