• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I’m familiar with that mental state. I can keep functioning long after I become too unpleasant for polite company.

    I have a disease whose prognosis is that my pain levels will steadily increase for the rest of my life. Currently it’s just elevated pain response, but eventually it will become spontaneous, unconditioned pain throughout my body.

    Really depressed the fuck out of me at first.

    But then I realized that science is always evolving, and just because that’s the typical course of someone with central sensitization syndrome, doesn’t mean it’s the only possible course.

    Heck thirty years ago we didn’t even know nerves grew back. Now everyone knows the term neurogenesis.

    In my studies, I’ve had to learn a lot about physiology, neurology, stress response, etc. If you would ever be interested in talking strategies for managing this thing let me know.