Pain: That Handicap Beneath Our Clothes
A retired psychiatrist on living with chronic pain
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5 min readNov 16, 2018
About 50 million of us in the United States have a secret, hidden handicap: chronic pain.
Yet we, myself included, dissemble well. When we put down our crutches, walkers, and the outside accouterments of disability, people might never guess what we are contending with. We hide the pain…
