the world is around me, i am trapped in a room. it is often poorly understood, misdiagnosed. i don't think we are equipped as a society or as a healthcare system to deal with that. there is the toll taken by the medication that millions rely onjust to get medication that millions rely on just to get through the day. when i inner withdrawal, i want to hit my horses. it is like my subconscious was screaming, you are going to die. and, the new understanding of chronic pain that has restored how people think and talk about what they are experiencing. it is not something i can change, it isjust it is not something i can change, it is just something it is not something i can change, it isjust something i can coexist with. that is sort of what acceptance is, just finding a way to coexist. knowing that persistent pain is very different and complex means _ very different and complex means that you actually have the ability to change it yourself. i - yourself. i am dominic hughes, yourself. — i am dominic hughes, health correspondence with bbc news, investigating the story of chronic pain, a condition that