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Amber's Pain-Fear Story
- Amber shares how chronic pain has caused her constant fear of losing work and independence.
- She reveals how this fear dominates her life and amplifies her pain experience.
Fear Perpetuates Pain
- Fear not only results from pain but also perpetuates it by signaling danger to the brain.
- This creates a pain-fear cycle where the brain keeps reinforcing pain as dangerous.
Understanding Neuroplastic Pain
- Chronic pain can be neuroplastic pain, which is pain caused by learned brain pathways not structural damage.
- Neuroplastic pain is real and just as intense as pain from physical damage.