for example, if we have pain in our knee, the senses in our knee may be sending normal information to our nervous system. that data reaches the spinal cord and the spinal cord will learn, do what it wants to do on that signal, and it may boost the signal, and it depends largely then on the decision—making process to turn that into a threat signal or a normal signal. and a normal signal will feel like there is a normal thing, but a threat signal, the best way our brain knows to get our attention is to flag that with pain. chronic pain can be extremely debilitating, fatiguing and agonising. chronic pain has made me feel different. - i feeljudged. i feel misunderstood. i feel isolated. i feel so guilty for not being able to work, for not having a career, for not being able to build my own life my own way, and having to rely on others for support. it's a dull, intense, burning pain that can be anywhere in the body, or all over, and those days