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When a person lives with chronic pain, even if they are not consciously aware of it — pain itself becomes the center of their life.It decides what they can and cannot do.What they want and what they don’t want.Where they will go and where they won’t.Who they meet, what they do, what they postpone.Pain is…

I am a wolf. A wolf, as you know, is fed by its feet. The life of an adult wolf, a family father, is not a carefree childhood of jumping in puddles and playing tag with sunbeams. Today, I am more interested in live, and well-fed, hares. I am a husband and a father, head…

In a discussion under one of my posts on Facebook, I realized that my readers really don’t know the difference between narcotic and non-narcotic medications. Could it be that all these terrible cases of long-term narcotic drug use are caused by insufficient public awareness? A person truly thinks that since the doctor prescribed a chronic…

We already know that pain can become the center of life — an invisible dispatcher deciding what a person will do and what they will avoid. But there is another contender for this role — anxiety. Like pain, it can control behavior, and very often it is the invisible amplifier and even the root cause…

I have written about this many times because this issue concerns me endlessly. And here it is again, “never happened before, and again.” Yesterday at the hotel, I danced. I danced quite a lot and enjoyed it immensely. But in the morning, upon waking, I felt a slight but noticeable pain in my knees and…

❗ The word “pain” originally carries a negative connotation. Which is completely unfair. ✅ Acute pain is our friend and advisor. It lets us know that a limb is injured and should not be put under pressure. It makes us pull our hand away from fire. It teaches us that indulging in very spicy food…