Living With Chronic Pain

Living with Chronic pain and anger just seem to go together. Find out why...

Just as sure as the sun comes up, a person living with chronic pain will have good days and bad days. The good ones are good but the bad ones ...Oh Boy!!

You can never tell who will be the vent for the anger that the pain has caused. It could be you, your child, a neighbor or even the television or anything or anyone at all. Anger is a way the sufferers lash out at the pain.

I truly know that you don’t like it and in time tell the patient that lashing out isn’t fair. You know it is the pain that is making the anger come up to the surface. But still, feelings get hurt. They will probably apologize for it later when the pain subsides. But, there are some that think an apology is not necessary. They feel, we don't understand what they are going through and mostly we don’t.

Chronic pain is gripping. Think of it this way, every morning you can expect you will mash your hand in the car door for the rest of your life. That should give you some idea of what living with chronic pain is like. Not a happy thought but neither is living with unrelenting daily pain. Then you will see where the anger comes in to play.

I like to think of those that have lived for some time as chronic pain survivors. The ones that still have to come to grips with all this will soon be. There is a world outside of chronic pain. When it is finally managed right and things aren’t so bleak, that is when you can see some changes being made.

Just try to remember, they aren’t mad at you, it’s the pain they are angry at. They lose so much of their own identity. Having anger will chase off even the best of friends eventually.

Isolation and loneliness’ for a formerly active person is devastating at best. This is where the “Why me, what did I do to deserve this” comes into play. We are all here for a reason. Some are here to learn and some are here to teach others.

It is hard to be compassionate for someone in a foul mood most of the time, but remember we are the learners.

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