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    The Chronic Pain Manual: The Really, Real Manual on Pain
    The Chronic Pain Manual: The Really, Real Manual on Pain
    The Chronic Pain Manual: The Really, Real Manual on Pain
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    The Chronic Pain Manual: The Really, Real Manual on Pain

    By Nikki Albert

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    Do you have pain? Have you had pain so long that you don't even remember what not pain feels like? I mean is that even a thing? Not feeling pain? Pain level 0? We at the pain manual are not even sure anymore. And this is the Manual for you, my friend. We will go over such topics as how to know you are actually in pain to what not to do on Good Pain days. 

    The manual was lost to us for years but was recently recovered by me. Unfortunately, only pages of it were and can be released. This is a hypothetical quote from the potentially really real author of the really, real manual: "People like me with illness just need to know what to do. We flounder with random advice. I was told yesterday to drain the black bile from my body! Black bile! I need my black bile to live! Someone needs to write something to guide us in the right direction. So we had step by step instructions on how to do this coping business." To which the reported response was, "Suck it up, buttercup."

    Well, we did suck it up, Buttercup. And the manual shows us ways to think about pain in Book 1. 
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNikki M Albert
    Release dateMar 27, 2018
    ISBN9781386724711
    The Chronic Pain Manual: The Really, Real Manual on Pain

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      The Chronic Pain Manual - Nikki Albert

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      The Chronic Pain Manual

      The Really, Real Manual on Pain

      By Nikki Albert

      Copyright 2018 by Nikki Albert

      All rights reserved

      All characters and events in this book are fictitious

      All resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental.

      Table of contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: How to know you have chronic pain

      Chapter 2: How to talk about pain

      Chapter 3: To those that doubt your pain

      Chapter 4: Things to consider for lifestyle

      Chapter 5: What not to do on a Good Pain Day

      Chapter 6: Negative thoughts

      Chapter 7: Mood

      Exercise

      What I Really wanted for Valentine's Day

      Ways not to respond to someone’s chronic illness

      The gift that keeps on giving (and I didn’t order it)

      How to meditate with pain

      Stigma

      Things to do at the Doctor’s office

      Fatigue

      Brain Fog

      That’s a Flare

      Sleep?

      Closing

      Bonus Material

      Introduction

      THIS IS THE CHRONIC illness manual recovered pages I have managed to collect through deep and thorough research. It is believed the manual was written by one Joseph J. Pickleworth the III somewhere between 1200-1934ish. He wasn’t a very well known chronic illness advocate but was a prolific writer who was never published in his time. The Manual was found mysteriously after his death and tells explicitly how to live with chronic illnesses through concise research, observation, and deep, inspiring reflection. However, only pages have survived.

      Mr. Pickleworth reportedly said to his cousin’s brother’s mother’s brother that People like me with illness just need to know what to do. We flounder with random advice. I was told yesterday to drain the black bile from my body! Black bile! I need my black bile to live! Someone needs to write something to guide us in the right direction. So we had step by step instructions on how to do this coping business. To which the reported response was, Suck it up, buttercup.

      I asked his mother who died some time ago what she thought and she stated, You have to understand my son was alive at a time before science, facts, and truth. One might say it was a time of alternative facts. So that is the language he wrote in. It is brilliant how you can alternatively heal yourself with his words and alternatively find a cure for them. Of course, all the cure pages were long lost, sadly, so we will never know how to alternatively cure ourselves. Some said, she burned them because they were too brilliant for the eyes of others. We will just never know.

      Some pages were not salvageable at all and I have interpreted them the best that I can. I have also added some commentary to facilitate the reading.

      Warning

      Chapter 1: How to know you have chronic pain

      CHRONIC PAIN IS A LOT like pain but it lasts forever and ever to infinity and beyond. Well, not beyond death. We haven’t researched that far. We assume without a body it stops. So, yes, indefinite pain. But not for a day, or two. Not for a month, or two. For six months or longer, yes. The

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