Exactly. I'm a person, living happily with chronic pain. I've embraced my new lifestyle, but I need the proper painkillers and pain management is a constant balance between addiction and relief. It is simply cruel to deny any living creature pain relief, if it is there for them and they need it.
I was excited for a second, too. But I also am very hesitant to believe an industry that lied so much about the addictive nature of their drugs when they say something isn’t addictive.
Haha, that’s too real. I was raised evangelical in the satanic panic - couldn’t even talk about pain bc I would be causing it with my “confession”. I used to think everyone felt awful all the time and I was just weak and focused on it too much.
OMG! Me too! You're not from Oklahoma by any chance? I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church and my childhood was riddled with fear and shame. It took a LONG time to feel "normal" about my own decisions (whatever that is).
Way back was infamous psych hospital in London.
( Called Bedlam) Often have thought I'd have ended up there.
Somehow if your pain is "invisible" many think it's "in your mind" - including tooo many medics
They're real quick to prescribe psych meds rather than actually listen to us. I'm not an addict. I just want to be able to shop for groceries, take my kid to the zoo, clean my house, walk across my work parking lot... I don't think that's too much to ask for.
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I was excited for a second, too. But I also am very hesitant to believe an industry that lied so much about the addictive nature of their drugs when they say something isn’t addictive.
( Called Bedlam) Often have thought I'd have ended up there.
Somehow if your pain is "invisible" many think it's "in your mind" - including tooo many medics