Thanks so much for writing this. I had basically an identical experience of developing chronic pain then spending two years ineffectively treating it with physical therapy before realizing it was psychosomatic and tied to my emotions. Once I read “the way out” I was halfway to being cured and today I feel 90-95% recovered. To anyone reading this in chronic pain there is hope.
I wrote a blog post detailing my experience but yours is much more well researched and I’m glad you are spreading awareness of this.
I think the EA community is probably much more prone to this issue for the following reason: personality traits that are a risk factor for chronic psychosomatic pain are pretty much identical with the stereotypical EA, namely;
“High in any of these personality traits: self-criticism, pressure, worrying and anxiety, perfectionism, conscientiousness, people pleasing - these correlate with neuroplastic pain”
Thanks so much for writing this. I had basically an identical experience of developing chronic pain then spending two years ineffectively treating it with physical therapy before realizing it was psychosomatic and tied to my emotions. Once I read “the way out” I was halfway to being cured and today I feel 90-95% recovered. To anyone reading this in chronic pain there is hope.
I wrote a blog post detailing my experience but yours is much more well researched and I’m glad you are spreading awareness of this.
I think the EA community is probably much more prone to this issue for the following reason: personality traits that are a risk factor for chronic psychosomatic pain are pretty much identical with the stereotypical EA, namely;