What neuroscience is teaching us about chronic pain — and the treatment that’s changing lives. Many years ago, I went through a two-year period with chronic tendinitis in my wrists. During those years there were countless days when I couldn’t type, garden, cook, or even open doors or jars without excruciating pain. I saw my doctor and went to physical therapy for over a year. I stretched, I rested, I iced, I splinted. Nothing really shifted. I overcame my wrist symptoms after reading a book called Healing Back Pain by Dr.

On anxiety, self-compassion, and why your brain keeps looking for problems to solve The mind, when it’s anxious, will find a problem to solve. It doesn’t matter if the problem is real or imagined, or already over. It just needs something to work on. I was reminded of this the other night, lying awake and anxious after working on my last post too close to bedtime. There were thoughts about whether I was sharing too much of my personal story in my posts, whether they were overlapping too much in terms of the themes I discussed, and also how people might respond to what I shared about how my first marriage ended.

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Living with chronic pain? Learn more about Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a promising treatment.