A person emerges from many cells, atoms, molecules, processes that are not that person and don’t have person-ness.
A car has wheels, doors, engine bits, seats, none of which have the properties of a car. They are just those things.
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Of course we are much more than a car because we have an aliveness and consciousness—something it is like to be you. A stream of contents that forms that experience.
It is always a whole. Not a part.
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That’s why to help a person suffering persistent pain, we help the person and not the part.
The part is not the person. The part does not live the experience of pain.
Then there’s the story. What we tell ourselves: What has happened? What it means? What’s the cause? The future? All are highly convincing yet often wrong.
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The misunderstanding of pain could be the most important reason why persistent pain has become a leading global health burden & why treatment outcomes are so poor.
With chronic conditions such as persistent pain, fibromyalgia, CFS, ME and more recently Long Covid, people are still dismissed when their tests show nothing of note.
The idea that a negative test (or tests) means that there is nothing wrong is ignoring the plain fact that there is something wrong.
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The person has just explained how they are feeling. Have they been heard? Many haven’t and that is unacceptable. Even some doctors have not been believed by other doctors!
Firstly, you cannot see pain on a scan or in the person. There is nothing to see.
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And just in case you are thinking brain patterns, you are seeing a brain pattern not pain. Those coloured pictures in studies are also created to show certain things that the authors want you to see, so read the method carefully…