I found living with chronic pain hugely tiring. Everything took more energy, and BEING in pain was exhausting in itself. If you've been living with pain for awhile, I'm sure you've felt this way too.
There are several kinds of tired. We feel physically tired, of course, from sleep deprivation and the amount of energy it takes for our bodies just to deal with the pain and try to heal while we're also attempting to live our lives within all that.
We feel mentally tired because we're having to address our regular daily concerns of finances, family, work (or lack of it) and added to that are medical appointments, trying to plan for the future in a lot of unknowns, our worries about healing (or not healing), and the whole disability and/or workmen's comp and/or insurance system maze.
We feel emotionally tired because we're trying to keep as positive as we can and maintain hope in the face of things that may not look too bright right now.
All of these kinds of tired are a lot to carry all at once. In the next video, I read Chapter 12 of The Pain Companion: Physical and Emotional Exhaustion and give you simple, practical methods of chronic pain management that ease the physical and emotional exhaustion and fatiguing drain we feel when we're in chronic pain.
I hope you find these useful!. You can view the video here: https://youtu.be/4snDboN8xyY
There are several kinds of tired. We feel physically tired, of course, from sleep deprivation and the amount of energy it takes for our bodies just to deal with the pain and try to heal while we're also attempting to live our lives within all that.
We feel mentally tired because we're having to address our regular daily concerns of finances, family, work (or lack of it) and added to that are medical appointments, trying to plan for the future in a lot of unknowns, our worries about healing (or not healing), and the whole disability and/or workmen's comp and/or insurance system maze.
We feel emotionally tired because we're trying to keep as positive as we can and maintain hope in the face of things that may not look too bright right now.
All of these kinds of tired are a lot to carry all at once. In the next video, I read Chapter 12 of The Pain Companion: Physical and Emotional Exhaustion and give you simple, practical methods of chronic pain management that ease the physical and emotional exhaustion and fatiguing drain we feel when we're in chronic pain.
I hope you find these useful!. You can view the video here: https://youtu.be/4snDboN8xyY
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