Makes Sense

Abrielle Stedman by Anna Wolf

Research suggests that starting school at 10:00 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m. reduces student illness by half and significantly enhances academic performance.

NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

"Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it." (It probably is a phishing email.)

This never gets old.

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The way I work on keeping myself out of that cycle is trying to give myself other feelings beyond just pain and try to reconnect to my body in a positive way. But you have to start slow, I started exercise just doing a loop around my house and took at least 6 months to take it to three miles. Now I can casually run 3 or 4 miles in my chair, and I get to feel the sun on my face and wind in my hair and my arm muscles working hard to move me.

Also, ''your pain is your fault'' and ''you're faking it'' is very much insinuated in that cycle.

The pain is real, the injuries are real, the loss of muscle memory is all very real. This is specifically for pain that isn't ever going to go away. It's saying that you need to find a way to get your body moving because sitting and not moving at all causes things like contractures and pressure sores and loss of function and MORE PAIN. Even people in comas have medical professionals come and move their joints and roll them over in bed because of this. It's not exercise or it's all your fault, it's "I know this hurts but not doing anything hurts more"

Briar absolutely knows that chronic pain is real and needs treating and is offering information that has helped them (and me!) manage that very real debilitating pain. This doesn’t blame anyone for their pain and Briar would never ever ever imply that chronic pain patients are faking or not trying hard enough or anything like that.