In this month's Learning Curve, Nicola Dall'Asen reveals how your physical form can become a stranger when you have chronic pain.
reveals the difficult and complex relationship she's developed with her body due to chronic lower back pain.Rather, I've been mourning my body — or what it used to be. That's because, throughout most of my 20s , I've been developing chronicthe one who created my pain, as if by neglect or by accident, but it just happened. I never fell. I didn't get hit by anything.
"I might've been born with this pain embedded inside me, wrapped up tight, just waiting for the right moment to arise. Apparently, the right moment was when I finally came to peace with my body." I can't deal with the idea that my body is the source of all this misery, so I no longer look at it as a part of me. It's just where I live — except this isn't my house. It's a four-floor walk-up in a pre-war apartment building where the plumbing's abysmal, the appliances are rusted over, and the loud neighbors are always shouting through the paper-thin walls. I like to think this is a temporary rental situation, but I might never be able to afford to move out.
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