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I know that if I'm in pain, I can't handle as much stimulation or mental/emotional stress. It's a lot easier for me to break down crying on my high pain days—not just bc I'm in pain but because it's harder for me to process things emotionally while my body is under stress from pain. For the same reason, it can be difficult to think as quickly or clearly. I can even have a hard time speaking.

I feel a lot of pressure from society to push through the pain. To keep going despite how hard it is to think or to process the world or my feelings while I'm in pain. Today, when I was in lots of pain, my friend told me to relax, to take it easy. And it was really, really hard. I needed so much reassurance that I didn't need to keep pushing. That everything would still be okay if I stopped treading water and just floated instead.

First of all your brain is a bodily organ same as everything else. It literal controls the rest of your body so if something goes wrong there something has the potential to go wrong everywhere else.

my brain: you should die