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Chronic Pain
Dealing with chronic pain is like running into a brick wall, everyday.
People ask how you are doing, but you say you're fine because deep down, you don't think they actually want to hear the answer. You assume they are just being polite. So you go about your day in silence, but in agony.
Your mental health becomes gravely impacted because you are struggling to fight it alone. You have no answers, no cure, just your voice in your head screaming at you to make it stop.
You wake up everyday fighting, which in return leaves you mentally and physically exhausted. But people look at you and see nothing wrong. It makes you burn inside more. You know the pain is there because YOU can feel it.
You get labeled as attention seeking, or medication seeking when you are really just looking for help because at the end of the day, it is too hard to fight alone.
Chronic pain leads to suicide as much as mental health does. There is a stigma behind it because just like mental health, if you can't see it, people assume it doesn't exist.
