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"Complaining about pain is seen as a personal failure, an inability to keep a positive attitude or cope with one’s circumstances. This “betrayal” mindset ignores the fact that the person in pain is experiencing world-destruction." What a sentence! What a powerful thought. Thank you for helping me move a little closer to understanding the pain that accompanies pain.

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Great encapsulation (that will force me to consume the work). As I wrote last year:

The sharp pain that is spoken of does not represent because that hurt had no utterance, it is a tepidly reconstructed echo.

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