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“Desire and love have to grapple first with reconstituting themselves in a body that has been altered to its core.”

Pain Desire Sex Chronic Pain

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like.”

Pain Suffering Empathy Chronic Pain

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“I didn’t know all the rules of pain yet, the rules of doctors and power and the military decorum and submission, but I would learn.”

Pain Doctors Medicine Chronic Pain Stigmatized

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“Our fix-it-itis is not a simple social gaffe but the evidence of a deep blind spot born with the help of the market. We are educated about illness by television commercials... A puzzle like me that cannot be solved is a point of discomfort, a disjuncture, a black hole... My body is a discomfort, a burr in the hide of the marketplace itself, a reminder that not all pain can be treated with a purchase.”

Pain Society Health Illness Healthcare Chronic Pain

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“I do not try to look sexy or cute. Pain pushes even gender out of the way, even vanity, even the hopes of looking like someone else. In some ways, pain returns me to childhood, my eyes to the naked, peaceful orbs of animals.”

Pain Sex Sexy Attraction Chronic Pain Asexual Agender

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“The body in pain is a deviant body that defies expectations, refuses the easy boxes of sick and well.”

Pain Sick Chronic Pain Well Sickness And Health

Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

“I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.”

Addiction Chronic Illness Chronic Pain Painkillers Opioids Judgemental People Chronic Pain Stigma Stigmatization Opioid Use Pain Management Stigmatized Pain Killer Pills

Author:Sonya Huber

“Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.”

Addiction Chronic Pain Opiates Painkillers Opioids Chronic Pain Stigma Pain Management

Author:Sonya Huber

“I take opioids to treat chronic pain. Stigmatizing them will harm me.”

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Author:Sonya Huber