#trauma and chronic pain

[headpainmigraine]

Day Four of the Migraine World Summit involved an interview with Aimie Apigian, who founded 'Trauma Healing Accelerated'

She spoke about how trauma is physically stored in the body, the difference between the body's stress state and the trauma state.

She considers that telling your trauma story over and over re-traumatises the body, so that often people feel fatigue or a chronic pain condition flare up after therapy.

She offers help with dealing with the physical effects of trauma in the body regardless of the 'story' of your trauma, whatever it may be.

The interview included some links that might be helpful for people to look over

Trauma Healing Accelerated

Somatic Experiencing International

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Guide: Steps to Identify and Heal Trauma

Study: "Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults"

NOTE: The Migraine World Summit cautions that "the alternative theories presented in this video have not been medically reviewed"

HER CREDENTIALS: Dr Apigian is a double board-certified physician specializing in trauma, attachment, addiction and cellular-level trauma, as well as a fucntional medicine physician specialising in neuro-autoimmunity, nutrition and genetics for addiction, mental health and mood/behavioural disorders, with certificates in trauma therapies.

I hope this is helpful to someone, but please read with a critical eye, and of course, don't take drastic action on this information if you're under the care of a doctor without discussing it with them first.

#trauma #trauma recovery #chronic pain #spoonies #trauma and chronic pain #migraines #chronic migraine #headache #headaches #migraine #chronic illness #trauma therapy #disability

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Can we please for the love of god stop telling teenagers they’re too young to have aches and pains. Can we please stop being dismissive about these things. Fakeclaiming is disgusting period, but it is exponentially harmful to youth. Just because you didn’t start hurting until your 20s or 30s or 40s doesn’t mean every teenager complaining of chronic pain must be lying. I learned the hard way that if kids are invalidated enough about this, they will just learn to accept constant pain as a fact of life. And then they will need surgery they can’t afford in ten years bc it turns out constant pain is NOT a fact of life. At any age.

p.s. same goes for mental health

#chronic pain #chronic illness #medical trauma #tw fakeclaiming #fake claiming #anti fakeclaiming #childhood trauma #complex trauma #physical disability #disability advocacy

[chronicallyillandcoping]

Im really tired of medical professionals not realising that their behaviour and their colleagues behaviour literally traumatises people.

#disabled #chronically ill #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #disability #actually disabled #chronic disability #disabled community #spoonie problems #disablity #chronic illness #medical trauma

[nerdpoe]

Danny got caught by the GIW, tortured, and managed to escape.

Unfortunately, he didn't escape without damage.

And he can't tell his parents or they'll get suspicious.

But the damage is....obvious. He always hurts, now. He can't feel his right pinky or move it. Walking for long stretches of time is impossible, and his legs physically won't hold him up if he tries. But he can't use a wheelchair, or his parents will find out. So he resorts to floating and pretending to walk. He can't bend over as much; his core muscles are too damaged to allow it. So he phases through himself to pretend he is, or lies and leaves before someone asks him to.

He definitely can't fight.

The other ghosts know this, and ease off so that he can recover. It's a respect thing; going after another ghost when they're weak and incapable of fighting is shameful.

So he and Jazz do some research, and make a list of the medical equipment he needs to start recovering. Jazz tries to teach herself how to be a physical therapist on top of everything else in her life; college, her job so she doesn't rely on their parents, etc.

But that medical equipment is so frickin expensive.

So Danny plans for being out of commission for a week or so, visits Jazz in Gotham indefinitely, and decides to rob one of the largest suppliers of medical equipment.

Drake Industries.

His first few heists go off pretty well, but then on the final one, he finds himself face to face with Red Robin.

A noise from behind him alerts him to Nightwing.

And, again; Danny cannot fight.

He's already shaky, using his powers so much. The pain that's always there has flared to levels he can't ignore, and he knows he needs to leave immediately.

He also can't afford to be chased.

"Please. I just want to get better, and it's too expensive otherwise."

@simplestoryteller

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #tim's just shocked cuz he knows signs of physical trauma when he sees it #and this dude needs like a team of physical therapists #dick's already kinda got a bead on at least four to five different PT exercises that would help the kid #chronic pain!danny #like it could be so much less than it is #but because he's denying himself the tools that would help him out of concern for his own safety #he's just getting worse #obvi they locate danny's human self and realize the kid realllllly needs help #danny comes to jazz's apartment to find a wheelchair waiting for him with a big red bow on it

[i-the-spoonie]

#chronic illness #disability #mecfs #spoonie #pots #myalgic encephalomyelitis #actually disabled #mental health #chronically ill #spoonie memes #chronic fatigue syndrome #chronic pain #invisible disability #trauma

[eyeofthenewt1]

chronic pain

#ashton greymoore #critical role fanart #bells hells #gesture drawing #Ashton having real visible cracks coming from his head and chronic pain can actually be something so dear to me #-a person with chronic headaches and migraines who also feels like their skull is a brittle stone being picked at with hammer and chisel #Is Ash gonna become my my new projection blorbo like Caleb was a couple years back? Tune in next time to see.. #Would make sense honestly tho cause trauma was my biggest issue back then and chronic pain is now so.... #annathenewt art #my art #critrole

[bunnighost]

#chronic pain #chronic illness #trauma vent #traumacore #actuallytraumatized #vent edit

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

#medical trauma #chronic illness #undiagnosed chronic pain #undiagnosed something #chronicallyill

[phleb0tomist]

did you grow up with chronic pain? did you get called sensitive as a kid/teen with chronic pain? were you bombarded with wisecracks from adults who said you won’t know real pain till you get older? join my initiative to ban this vile practice from planet earth!

i had chronic pain as a kid. (still do now.) my physical ability was best in childhood, like, i could do cartwheels then, meanwhile i can’t walk now. but istg my pain was regularly at this very same level back in childhood. ok i have extra symptoms now which make things harder, but if we’re JUST focusing on the pain part, it’s often the same. this blows my mind. the level of pain that i have now, bedbound and with opioids and a million accommodations, is the same level i had when i was 10 when i was just walkin around all day, asking my teachers nicely if i could sit indoors during playtime. (they said no btw.) back then, every time i tried to tell people how much everything hurt, adults said i was “sensitive”.

was i sensitive? is that what i was?

I think i must have been insanely powerful as a 10 year old to be out and about with a level of pain that makes me nonfunctional as an adult. I wonder how many kids and teens are in that amount of pain right now and are being dismissed because of their age. i think the way adults treat children with long term pain is evil. “you don’t know real pain! it only gets worse as you get older! wait till you grow up!!”

okay i waited.

i’m closer to 30 now than i am to 10, and the more hindsight i gain, the more i realise what a horrific violation it is that my pain was ignored when i was the most vulnerable to the trauma of unmanaged pain and had the least frame of reference for what level of agony is normal to experience while climbing stairs

#ok to rb #HOT TIP. if it takes your child more than 20 minutes to recover from climbing stairs THEY ARE NOT SENSITIVE. they need MEDICAL HELP. #anyway. just thought y’all might relate #chronic pain #medical neglect #medical trauma #chronic illness #negative #disability #txt #I want to trigger tag this but idk what to put #rant #long post

[foxes-at-a-keyboard]

I don't think people understand how much energy it takes every day to be mentally and physically ill and just… keep everything on track.

Every day, several times a day, I work to make sure I am drinking enough water. If I don't. It will affect my chronic illness. I will feel ill and everything will be harder.

Everyday I try to make sure I eat two to three meals. Sometimes it's hard because I feel ill, sometimes it's hard because, mentally, food is repulsive. If I don't eat I will end up feeling more ill.

When I am standing I have to make sure I don't stand for too long. If I don't I will feel faint.

When I am sitting I have to make sure I am not sitting the wrong way. If I don't I will strain my joints, I might pull them out of place. I will be in pain for days.

Sometimes a change in the weather will make me feel ill.

Sometimes a change in the air quality will make me feel ill.

I have to check the ingredients of everything I eat or I will be ill. I'm not just looking for one thing. It's dozens of things. Some things only become a problem depending on the amount. Some things only become a problem depending on how they are processed. It's a constant struggle to remember everything. If I make one mistake I will have digestive issues.

But if I get too stressed or am having other chronic problems flare up I might have digestive issues anyways.

When I am stressed I try not to tense up my muscles. If I do, I will be sore for days. It might affect my joints.

But it's easy for me to be stressed. Small changes to my routine are painful. I get overwhelmed by people, by noise, by unexpected change. I work hard to manage it but it's hard.

Sometimes something very normal happens but I have trauma so it feels incredibly not normal for me. It might take days to figure out what exactly happened and how to dig myself out of my emotions.

My memory is poor. There is so much I have to remember to stay mentally and physically okay. Not even good. Just okay. It's so hard to remember everything. There is almost always something falling through the cracks.

I get tired easily. Even just maintaining my mental and physical health is exhausting. But if I don't do it it is even MORE exhausting.

And it starts all over every day.

#foxspeaks #chronically ill #chronic illness #chronic pain #disabled #disability #mental health #mental illness #trauma

[strawberrycat18]

When other people say they’re dizzy, they mean ‘phew! My equilibrium is a bit off! In a just a few moments I’ll be fine!’

When I say I’m dizzy, I mean something very different.

I mean that I can see black spots in my vision, and I can’t tell if this is going to be the time I pass out.

It means that the world is swimming underneath my feet, stretching and distorting like an obstacle course even when it’s just a straight, flat path.

It means there’s so much pressure in my head and not nearly enough.

It means that I can feel my heart speed up and beat harder, trying to adjust to the new gravity, just because I’ve shifted slightly.

It means I can feel the nausea rising in my stomach and the bile come up my throat.

It means that walking is a challenge. Getting a snack is a challenge, going to the bathroom is a challenge. Sitting up is a challenge.

So, when I say I’m dizzy, I’m trying to dumb it down so that you can understand a fraction of what I’m feeling. Not that I’m not feeling it. On good days, it’s a hindrance. On bad days it stops me doing anything. Stop telling me that ‘just being dizzy’ doesn’t make me ‘that disabled’. You barely know the half of it.

#potsie #chronic illness #chronic pain #chronically ill #pots #pots syndrome #disabled #autism #tw gaslighting #gaslighting #disability #I’m so done with my mum #medical trauma #medical gaslighting

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Gentle reminder that your disability and/or chronic illness struggles are valid, even if others have it worse. It’s not like there’s one definitive Most Disabled Person In The World and they’re the only one entitled to accommodations or reactive emotions. That’s not how it works <3

#physical disability #chronic illness #neurological disability #adhd autistic #audhd #neurodiversity #did osdd #late diagnosed autistic #complex trauma #invisible disability #invisible illness #intersectionality #comorbidities #comorbid conditions #disability representation #disability accommodations #disability advocacy #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #chronically ill #disabled representation #disabled rant #disability things #chronic illness things

[decora-kai]

Yk i wish medical professionals could actually act fucking professional and understand that being in constant pain is not something that 'everyone has' or 'just growing pains'. I want them to recognise that I'm not just a whining kid who wants attention, or an unhealthy kid who just needs to exercise. It fucking pisses me off. I'm also pissed because I feel like my level of pain doesn't warrant any help compared to others. I know some people with chronic pain are bed bound 24/7 and because of fucking medical gaslighting I feel like I'm not worthy of a diagnosis because I'm not also stuck to bed forever. Like Im with my chronically ill friends who have to deal with such bad pain that they probably will never be able to leave their house and I feel for them, but just because I'm not 'as bad' as them doesn't mean I'm just a pussy bitch.

#chronic pain #chronic illness #fibromyalgia #tw vent #rant post #spoonie #medical gaslighting #disabled #cripple punk #cpunk #Medipunk #pissed off #medical trauma #transmasc #queer

[thepeacefulgarden]

#you are not a burden #you are not too much #you are enough #trauma #grief #recovery #healing #you are allowed to take up space #you are allowed to have needs #chronic illness #spoons #it's okay to not be okay #your feelings are valid #your trauma is valid #your pain is valid #you matter #mental health #self care #self care is not selfish #reparenting

[neuroticboyfriend]

i hope your bodymind gets even just a little more rest and calm tonight. i hope you stumble upon a more comfortable way to lay down. i hope the amount of light in your room is just right. i hope your bedding brings you comfort. i hope you find that moment right before sleep where there isn't a worry in your head. i hope whatever pain is held within you quiets even just a bit tonight, and i hope you know just how much every little improvement counts.

goodnight, sleep tight. i'll be thinking of you. you're not forgotten.

#softspoonie #messages to myself #if someone made this post and it came across my dash i would bawl my eyes out #so here's to hoping it does something good for someone else #good things #mental health #sleep health #sleep #mental health support #chronically ill #chronic illness #positivity #spoonie positivity #spoonie #chronic pain #disability positivity #disabled #trauma #trauma support #health #goodnight #neurodivergent #ptsd #c-ptsd #complex ptsd #bodymind

[i-the-spoonie]

#disability #spoonie #chronic illness #actually disabled #mental illness #mecfs #trauma #mental health #myalgic encephalomyelitis #pots #fibromyalgia #chronically ill #chronic pain