Daniel Preston

My favourite quotes around understanding pain thats persists and as a foundation to help those who live with persistent pain . A thread.

We have a #chronicpain problem, not an opioid problem. We can’t always be fixed with a pill, injection, or surgery. More focus needs to be placed on pain rehabilitation and self-management. Read my related article: patient.practicalpainmanagement.com/resource-cente…

@Theholisticpsyc Leicestershire. England :)

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In Finland, kids go to school from 9am to 2pm, have v few tests, & all kids have to have 15 minutes of play for every 45 minutes of learning. Only 0.1 percent of their kids have severe attention problems.

@PendingOT At least you noticed!

Running is so great because it has the potential to take your brain to a place of real freedom.

4 reasons why prolonged breath-holding on FULL lungs is HIGHLY effective at making you breathe SLOWER? ✅ significantly increases your tolerance to CO2. ✅strengthens your respiratory muscles. ✅ increases your lung capacity. ✅ calms your nervous system.

'Mental health' is the capacity *for* (contained) pain & suffering — it is *not* the absence of pain & suffering. The latter is an impossible western fantasy, one which has led us down a path of collective alienation & despair.

NEW! Neurosymptoms FND Guide Formulator - a new tool for people with FND on the neurosymptoms.org website. This thread explains why we hope it will help patients and clinicians make sense of FND and improve communication. formulation.neurosymptoms.org . 1/…

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Its amazing to me that psychiatry & MH system has managed to convince everyone—including some critics—that the fault of stigma lays with everyone *outside* psychiatry and the MH system.

There's a huge disconnect between what we currently do in medicine to treat pain 💊🔪 🧬 and what science says we SHOULD do: 🧠 which is to treat the *whole person,* not just a body part. 👏🏼 📣 When will medicine catch up with SCIENCE??? #MedTwitter #painexplained 🔥🔥

Colleague: You're a pain psychologist. Do you treat physical pain or emotional pain? Me: Yes. C: ? Me: Pain is processed by the limbic system - our brain's EMOTION CENTER C: riiiight so you treat mostly anxiety & depression? Me: 😑🙄 🔥Pain is physical AND emotional #MedTwitter

Not only are you your acts, but in a very deep way you are yourself. You have an individuality that cannot be ignored. So in all things trust yourself and your basic sense of what is right for you. (Dr Roger Strauss)

If you don't take time for your wellness, you will be forced to take time for your illness - Unknown bit.ly/34scae1

Several studies have indicated that when you are not eating, the microbes in your gut get time off to work on repairing the gastrointestinal tract, potentially offering protection from ‘leaky gut’ and, ultimately, the kind of systemic inflammation that can trigger chronic disease

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Therefore training our attention and ability to relax is a vital component of pain self management.

A quote from a patient this week in a pain management group. “Pain is like a spoilt brat that always wants our attention” Pain is exhausting because it does command our attention and can leave little room/energy for us to focus on the pleasant things we enjoy.