Baring My Soul // Future Novel
How I developed Central Sensitization:
We’re taking it back to the early 2000’s:
- Part 1: High school running, my eating disorder, and pushing my nervous system to the breaking point
- Part 2 The straw that broke the camel’s back… “glass back syndrome,” and the pain that never fully went away
- Part 3 This strange pain that had no explanation… could something have changed or gone wrong in my body?
- Part 4 My doctor was convinced it had something to do with my mental health… I was not convinced
- Part 5 My desperate search for answers took me pretty far off the beaten path…
- Part 6 The doctor who *almost* helped me
Calming Your Nervous System: My experience with pain neurophysiology education
- Hitting rock bottom
- Finally, an approach that made sense
- Why we need different treatments for acute vs. chronic pain
- When the brain thinks everything is dangerous
- At the intersection of pain and mental health
- Readjusting my concept of what is “dangerous”
- The importance of exercise that doesn’t increase pain
- The one caveat, and looking toward the future
- How I’ve (mostly) made sense of my issues