Joanne Smith explains how pain works as a warning system, but sometimes it's a false alarm triggered by fear or stress rather than real danger. Learning to tell the difference helps you manage pain better and feel more in control of your symptoms.
There's just no way of decreasing these danger signals, especially if you're living in fear that you, you can't do things, or if you do something, it's going off the chart. It's such a difficult place to be in when you don't have this knowledge. So, um, I encourage everybody every single time I get the chance to look into this, like, Do your own homework. Message me if you want any links for any good places to start, because pain is always a protection, whether there's a real-life threat or whether that's a false alarm. So we cannot ignore any of that. It's going to get our attention. So we need to decipher the difference on whether it's a real-life legitimate threat or whether it's a false alarm. And it— oh, it's so empowering when you get to the point where you've got enough knowledge and understanding and you've assessed your own symptoms. It's so empowering, and it's miraculous what's possible, because for some people, wow.
