Chronic Pain Quotes

• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  J. I. Packer

  Stronger, Body, Waste

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  Karen Duffy

  Pain, Brain, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

  Gene Tierney

  Pain, Ill, Mentally Ill

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Stronger, Harder, Grows

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• Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

  Lynne Tillman

  Pain, Sadness, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving Forward, Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889.

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

  J. I. Packer

  Pain, Weakness, Use

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.

  J. I. Packer

  Sweet, Pain, Healing

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• Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

  Herbert Benson

  Pain, Memories, Stress

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• Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Pain, Challenges, Mind

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

  Phil Anselmo

  Sorry, Pain, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Pain, Mean, Artist

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• Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.

  C.E. Morgan

  Pain, Real, Ubiquity

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Attitude, Complaining

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I was five, I brought home a stray kitten I named Tiger. This was my first rescued animal. It wasn't until I became an actor, and then injured my spine, that I discovered that these animals were actually very therapeutic and helped me to cope with my chronic pain.

  Ken Wahl

  Pain, Home, Animal

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• So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.

  Shelby Harris

  Pain, Sleep, Insomnia

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.

  Shelby Harris

  Pain, Cancer, Medical Problems

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.

  David E. Sorensen

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Communication, Important

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• Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

  Gillian Flynn

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Years, People

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• Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Philosophy, Healing

  Marni Jackson (2002). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, Crown Pub

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that the effect of my thoughts is not only affecting my experience, but it is absolutely affecting the state of my health.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Pain, Knowing, Challenges

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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