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This story is from the Anamnesis episode called Abandoned and starts at 25:50 on the podcast. It s from Beth Darnall, PhD, a pain psychologist and director of Stanford University s Pain Relief Innovations Lab.
My background is that I am a pain psychologist, and between 2002 and 2017, I was seeing patients with chronic pain individually and doing psychological evaluations with them. I think it s important to understand that chronic pain itself is a very it can be very isolating for people. Because it is not seen, because it is invisible, it is often not understood, acknowledged, and in some cases even believed, so living with chronic pain itself can be very isolating.