Cici

22. Libra sun, Capricorn moon, Gemini rising.

[chronicpainintervention]

Hi everyone! My name is Ciandra, and I am an MS student at Palo Alto University, assisting a clinical psych PhD student who specializes in chronic pain/illness. I am recruiting for a dissertation study, which is looking at how a brief, online intervention for chronic pain might affect pain-related distress (any kind of pain counts!), utilizing mindfulness and pain physiology psychoeducation. If you are interested in participating, please see below. :) Thank you!

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States?

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise.

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/.../SV...

[chronicpainintervention]

Hi everyone! My name is Cici, and I am an MS student at Palo Alto University, assisting a clinical psych PhD student who specializes in chronic pain/illness. I am recruiting for a dissertation study, which is looking at how a brief, online intervention for chronic pain might affect pain-related distress (any kind of pain counts!), utilizing mindfulness and pain physiology psychoeducation. If you are interested in participating, please see below. Thank you!

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States?

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise.

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/.../SV...

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States?

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise.

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

[chronicpainintervention]

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

The purpose is to find out how supportive an online intervention can be for people with chronic pain. Feel free to message me as well with any questions.

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

The purpose is to find out how supportive an online intervention can be for people with chronic pain. Feel free to message me with any questions.

[friendlyneighbourhoodpapergay]

Yet another reminder that faking is a conscious choice that you make.

It is not something you can do accidentally, regards of what you're talking about.

You can't accidentally fake depression, or anxiety, or bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, or any other mental illness.

You can't accidentally fake Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, personality disorders.

You can't accidentally fake ADHD, autism, Tourette's Syndrome, auditory processing disorder, aphasia or any other neurodivergence

You can't accidentally fake being trans or ace-spec or aro-spec or any other LGBTQIA+ identity.

You can't accidentally fake chronic illnesses like CFS, fibromyalgia or any chronic illness.

You also can't accidentally fake being good/intelligent at something. You didn't fool your peers into reaching your position.

You can't accidentally fake trauma, PTSD/cPTSD, DID/OSDD/DDNOS or any other trauma-based disorder.

Tldr:

Faking is a conscious choice.

You cannot do it by accident.

If you are worried that you are faking, that in itself is proof that you are not.

[chronicpainintervention]

Take part in this online intervention to learn about managing pain-related distress

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2 Please feel free to message me directly if you have any concerns!

[chronicpainintervention]

Take part in this online intervention to learn about managing pain-related distress

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? 

If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. 

For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2 Please feel free to message me directly if you have any concerns!

[crps-chronicpain-ptsd]

Always stuck in one cycle or another. Chronic pain problems •

[chronicpainintervention]

Have you experienced chronic pain for three months or more? Are you 18+ and a resident of the United States? If so, please consider participating in this study of a brief, online intervention for chronic pain. You will be asked to watch 3 videos for this study: An introduction to the study, Understanding Chronic Pain in 5 Minutes, and a Relaxation Exercise. For more information, or to participate, follow this link: https://paloaltou.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4MdPdVhvvGfjglD?Bypass=2

[furiousgoldfish]

Complex trauma from abuse can cause chronic exhaustion, and chronic pain. This means the recovery, aside from being filled with guilt, shame and rage, will include long time spent in bed, feeling to exhausted and pained to move, or do anything.

This is happening because trauma is hard on the human body, and your body will spend all energy just trying to fight it, or repress it, or process it. The emotional pain of trauma being processed is enough to cause physical pain, chest pain, pain in all of your joints, headaches; your body will be so tense you can end up in chronic back pain and muscle pain just from all the tension and inability to relax. Your mind will be re-living the past and your body will react accordingly, getting terrified, shocked, tense, and finally showing all the damage you couldn’t feel when the abuse was happening. Even if you felt nothing while it was happening, there was no way to avoid this, your body can’t keep the trauma hidden inside of you forever.

One thing common for recovering victims is to feel intense shame for resting, for spending so much time in bed, feeling sick and worried about their future because they can’t get it together enough, or can’t get their tasks done due to pain and detachment from reality. You’ve all experienced being shamed for resting, being blamed for your own pain, and told you have no value if you’re not productive and hardworking. However, none of this applies to you right now. You need to rest. This rest is for survival. This is comparable to recovery from life-threatening injury, you cannot be expected to function or shamed for being lazy if your body is broken and barely hanging onto life. You are surviving, and you need rehabilitation and care, not feelings of inadequacy or shame for still daring to be alive.

It’s alright for you to exist just to rest only. In rare moments you do manage to get up, it’s okay to just do soothing non-productive stuff. There is no limit to how much care you need right now and you are obliged to give that to yourself. If the chronic exhaustion is caused by trauma, it will get better, not fast, not all at once, but slowly, during months and years, your body will let enough trauma out to allow you to use some of your energy for yourself. It’s vital you rest and let the trauma do its thing, and then eventually you will get your body back.

[98lindsey]

Telehealth is literally the access all chronic illness patients have been waiting for. It took a worldwide pandemic for doctors to realize that they could simply pick up the phone and do like 80% of their appointments. And yet the doctors still complain. That’s accessibility for you.

Flashback to two summers ago when my DISABILITY office at my college refused to have an accommodations appointment over the phone. They made me drive two hours one way to have one little 30min appointment. And now, with the pandemic, they only allow appointments over the phone. 😡🤬

[fablefire]

Apparently this one is super hard to learn. Maybe I need a TM... 🤔

[fickes]

**For interacting with strangers and associates–dynamics with friends and family are much more individualized**

Disability Pride Month 07-31-20: finale

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