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Article: REAL PAIN TRAPS YOU IN YOUR OWN, UNIQUE WORLD.(DAILY BREAK)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2000
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PAIN IS PERSONAL. Anyone experiencing pain, and we all have, knows that. I can't equate the depth of your pain, anymore than you can mine.
I can ask you to calculate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst. However, statistics show millions of people walk around each day silently screaming, ``Only I am in pain.''
In other words, you can't know my pain. You can't climb inside of me and feel my pain, nor can I to you. Oh, it's true you can express your sympathy.
If left untreated or undiagnosed, you and the pain become one. And it becomes a part of your persona that can disable your daily life, preventing you from performing even the simplest ...