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Same Face, Different Brain: Learning to Live with Chronic Pain and Ableism After a Brain Injury
Things have gotten better, but the pain has never truly gone away. And I have had to spend all seven years defending my injury. Defending its existence. To doctors. To strangers. To family. To friends. It never mattered that I had documentation. That anyone who truly knew me could see the change in me, even if they could not describe it. It never mattered; they could not see it…
‘More Painful Than Childbirth’: Suffering from Cluster Headaches
The excruciating pain began to take over my life. I was having a number of attacks in a day, which in itself was exhausting, but what I also struggled with was the impact on my mental health. Trying to explain to people that I felt unwell yet again and the suddenness of an attack was terrible, and the pain would heighten very fast…