Getting Out of Pain
With Pain Neuroscience Education
This eBook may challenge the beliefs you may have surrounding your pain. There are two things I want you to remember as you read this book: your pain is real, and it is not your fault that you are in pain.
Read this eBook slowly. Take time to think about how it applies to your pain. Allow yourself to be open minded to the idea that the way you have viewed and treated your pain may be wrong. That’s not on you. That’s on a healthcare system that has failed to properly educate its healthcare workers and patients on pain.
Healing is possible. Hang onto hope.
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Chapter 1
Pain is complicated. It’s highly unpleasant. Sometimes we know the cause and sometimes we don’t. But what is pain? Based on my last few years of research and personal experience with chronic pain, I have come to the conclusion that pain is both a biological and psychological experience. In healthcare, we often treat it as a purely biological and structural phenomena, but the conscious and subconscious mind greatly influences the overall pain experience. Some people even argue that pain is more of a psychological experience than physical. So, let’s look at pain from both angles.
Overview & Preview
When I first started experiencing chronic pain, I was overwhelmed and confused. I had just graduated from a four year nursing program and I was ready to start my career. During nursing school, we had brushed over chronic pain in a one hour lecture during my first year, and we never talked about it again. I remember feeling frustrated that nursing school had not provided more education on pain and how it should be treated.
I started my healing journey with a strong sense of optimism. I was convinced that a doctor would diagnose me, give me a medication, my pain would go away, and I would go back to my life the way it was before the pain. This did not happen. Instead, doctors struggled to diagnose me, medications made little to no difference, and my pain became worse with time.
It wasn’t until over a year later that I was introduced to PNE. None of my doctors or therapists had mentioned it, so I had never researched it. Once I became aware that PNE could help decrease pain, I dove into learning about it, and my perspective on my pain shifted. I began to realize that my pain was treatable. I regained hope that I could one day be free of pain. I began to feel freedom from the fear that my future would be filled with constant pain.