As someone who has been living with chronic pain for 20+ years, this is such an important conversation, thank you for starting it. People who do not live with it cannot be relied upon for comfort or even true compssion, in my experience. Because I mask well, and because it is intermittent, my pain is chronically dismissed by those who do not understand, even when I have flat out said "I'm in a lot of pain" and it sucks.
2025-11-19 21:18:28
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Cotton’s Room :
I genuinely believe you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize! I’ve never come across someone who is so amazing at communicating the spans of the multitudes of human experiences and helping people understand themselves!
2025-11-19 17:27:46
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Mr_Medicinal :
I greatly appreciate your message. I broke my neck in a motor vehicle crash in July 1994 just after turning 18. I haven’t had a pain-free day since then with chronic neuropathic pain and it’s only gotten worse as everything about my spine involves severe degeneration. That is what gave me my awakening and start of deconstruction in 2022. Hell isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
2025-11-19 18:08:45
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Felix💗 :
i have chronic pain and ask myself why hasnt god healed me if i have cried out to him too many times.
2025-11-19 17:24:16
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Laura Corgia :
As someone with chronic pain since I remember. Meaning cannot be created around pain. Pain limits everything enjoyable. Trying to go through suffering and making yourself feel useful doesnt work if truly nihilistic. Life with chronic pain is chronic pain. There is no manipultion around that for me…
2025-11-19 19:10:15
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Suzanne :
40 years ago (in my early 20’s) I had shingles on the right side of my face & into my eye. It was life-threatening, the pain was indescribable & I’ve had chronic pain & impaired vision since. It’s affirming to hear a non-chronic pain person recognize that pain limits one’s resilience & ability to “go big”. Although, the hurdle of being believed that you have limiting chronic pain, when you look “normal” (albeit with scars) & are independent, is its own form of pain & frustration. So you just cope quietly, not sharing it to avoid that pain at least.
2025-11-20 00:31:39
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Jared :
Chronic pain and degenerative diseases are definitely the hardest cases I’ve seen.
2025-11-21 01:24:26
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Cristina 💙 :
I have chronic pain. And my headspace became more clear when I accepted pain as integral to my experience of myself. Acceptance and accommodation. This is how I move (or don’t move) through the world — accommodating the fullness of me (which includes pain.)
2025-11-19 19:28:54
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Amy Rose :
I have Crohn’s. It’s under control now, but for a solid 5 years I was in constant pain. Any day my meds might stop working and I’ll return to that. But I can’t just eat whatever I want and operate like a normal person because that could cause a flare, too. My disease has forced me to find balance.
2025-11-19 17:41:55
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Ukemidog :
This is a valuable lesson. My wife has chronic pain & I struggle with what I can do to improve her quality of life.
2025-11-19 17:43:02
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🅱🅰🆁🆃 :
well since there is no universal morality, why would choosing life be better than choosing death, outside of societal standards
2025-11-19 17:40:50
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Melly :
I’m sorry your in so much pain! Both illnesses are brutal but at the same time! I’m struggling at the moment with if I don’t ask for a higher power to protect those I love each night, I’m terrified something bad will happen. I’ve let go of so many other things and I’ve never been religious or anything I just can’t get past it. Is that just me making excuses and like covering my own back in case something does? Hope you get better soon 💕💕
2025-11-19 17:44:42
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Austin DiValentino :
What’s interesting is that Camus had tuberculosis and struggled with pain which hindered many of his pursuits. He loved soccer growing up and wrote about his upsetting it was that he couldn’t move like that anymore without pain.
2025-11-19 17:31:35
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PocketRations :
it's what I battle with my Multiple sclerosis and bipolar 1. everyday is a battle to stay. some nights are harder than others.
2025-11-19 23:37:30
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bWILDer0 :
Poverty is also a hard mix with nihilism in the same way
2025-12-06 21:06:40
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♟️ :
Autism is literally killing me, i can’t imagine what it would be with chronic pain
2025-11-19 17:26:53
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sven :
thank you for making this
2025-11-19 18:59:49
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MT_millionaire :
Been there. You have my sympathy. Hurts like heck, but it will pass.
2025-11-19 17:33:03
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DeconstructionTherapist :
Thank you for this discussion and sorry you’re in pain! Meaning making/connecting to meaning also takes a good amount of energy that sometimes my chronic illness doesn’t allow me to have. It can be hard to connect to those mental spaces at all when my physical body requires so much attention.
2025-11-19 18:37:03
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heytherehbear :
I hope you feel better soon. Shingles is horrible. I’m recovering from surgery right now, and just trying to enjoy having my dog next to me.
2025-11-19 18:43:05
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Jade 🌼 :
very important to me as someone with a rare disease and at least 10 comorbidities from it. I'd love more vídeos on this
2025-11-26 19:32:12
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ProCraftinator 🎨 :
Constant chronic pain is quite shocking. That it must be my compulsory, constant companion is not what anyone would choose - but making space for it in every relationship and day is a grace to grow in & cultivate. Making life as good as it can be for me & those around me is an ever changing tide. Like trying to build a life in a hurricane; always wild, never predictable.
2025-11-20 22:49:24
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andtreads :
My beloved daughter suffers chronic pain and most likely always will. It’s a very heavy hand to be dealt. She has so much life but so many limitations, that juxtaposition is agonising. Worse still, for the most part, she’s not even believed. I try to be the ballast she needs, but my heart actually breaks.
2025-11-21 13:14:50
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