My chronic pain taught me about the links between the mind and body | Hannah Millington

Standard therapies were not working. But once I discovered the role of the brain in physical pain, I began to mend

Chronic pain is an ongoing epidemic. It debilitates around 28 million adults in the UK alone. Yet society seems to have grown comfortable with there being no cure. Perhaps this is because we have been searching for the wrong type of answer, in the wrong place.

I should begin by briefly explaining my own experience of chronic pain and what, seemingly against the odds, has helped me find relief.

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