Joanne Smith argues that knowing about pain isn't enough to heal it. Your brain creates pain when it perceives danger, real or imagined. She describes a tree branch hitting her head to show how actual threat triggers the response, but understanding this is just the first step toward recovery.
And so I'm going to start with really the most important part of the beginning of my journey was getting the knowledge. Getting the knowledge and having knowledge alone is not gonna give you a recovery or a cure. All the knowledge in the world is not gonna be what you need without the remaining steps for many, many people. It's like Many things in life, you can have all the knowledge, but it doesn't mean you're going to have the outcome. Yeah, so understanding that your brain's perceiving the danger is the first thing to understand about what's causing the symptoms. And sometimes the danger is real. Okay, it all works the same way because all pain and all symptoms are all created in the brain. Like Like, I give the example of the falling tree branch landing on my head. Like, that was a real danger. That tree branch landed on my head. My brain perceived that as a danger, rightly so. Okay, so sometimes it's legitimate. The brain perceives, perceives an injury and it triggers the pain.
