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I Am Working On My Mental,emotional And Physical Health

This is my planet, but not my society. I've been dealing with chronic physical pain for almost 8 years now, but mental and emotional pain, all my life. I have therapists who are doing their best, but my physical condition has the doctors and therapists stumped. I've been seen by someone who's world renown with my condition, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, who says the origin of the condition is not known and no one knows what to do about it. That's not a very promising prognosis. My mental and emotional condition wasn't the greatest to begin with - with what's going on in the world, politically, socially, economically, environmentally - but now, with this unending physical pain, with no sign or plan of relief, I'm thinking it's really not worth being here at all. I have very little quality life, and I'm really, really tired.

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PoetryNEmotion · F

Have you tried naturopaths? Chronic pain is the worse.

PhoenixPhail · M

@PoetryNEmotion: Yes, I've tried them. They prescribed lots of supplements which had no effect, whatsoever. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

PoetryNEmotion · F

@sophrai: Okay. Have you tried hypnotism, or Chinese practices or anything non-traditional? Have the physicians suggested anything radical? Sometimes you have to go outside the box.

PhoenixPhail · M

I haven't tried hypnotism. I did acupuncture for about a year, with no favorable results. I've tried several forms of physical therapy. The current PT is myofascial-release, which hasn't yet offered much relief.

PoetryNEmotion · F

@sophrai: There is also a form of treatment that you may want to investigate. It involves biofeedback. With chronic pain, you have to try anything because you never know what may help. I cannot think of anything else presently. I will keep thinking on it.

PhoenixPhail · M

@PoetryNEmotion: Thanks so much for all your comments. This is good info. I'm willing to try anything at this point.

PoetryNEmotion · F

@sophrai: You are welcome.