Status Updates From Pain Studies

“Pain as black box, lockbox, substitute safe hoarding vital data. Pain as memory's shrapnel. Pain as vehicle. Pain as avenue (spiritual, sexual, other). Pain as evidence of God's love. Pain as evidence of God's wrath. Pain as healthy. Pain as diseased. Pain as hollow attachment.
Pain as deepest bond. Pain as symptom.
Pain as cause. Pain as passing. Pain as lasting. Pain as proof.”

“On the one hand, pain is isolating, makes you an island, makes you distant, makes you selfish, unable to spare your energy or even your concern. On the other hand, it removes your armor, makes you vulnerable, shrinks distances, makes you more connected, more permeable than ever before.”


^^THIS. I don’t know what else to say except this, times infinity,

I have never read a book where the author has chronic migraines, but not only that, paints the picture for how it feels. And all the other things that happen, that are assumed, along with it.

And when she talked about migraines and numbers to describe 9.5 years of pain and counting, I cried because it’s me.

It’s okay if this book isn’t for everyone. It is for me.