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How Do I Teach My Brain to Deactivate My Pain?

How Do I Teach My Brain to Deactivate My Pain?

Update: 2021-08-253
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Fear is the fuel that keeps chronic pain alive. But as many pain sufferers know, it's hard to overcome that fear when it feels so powerful and so automatic. In this episode, Alan and Alon explain how to teach your brain to turn off the fear by introducing a new concept: corrective experiences and setbacks. Alan talks to Sue, who suffers from multiple painful symptoms, and Christie, who feels pain whenever she types. These sessions provide real life examples of corrective experiences and setbacks in action. Finally, Alan and Alon explain how you can use corrective experiences to help your brain unlearn the fear and deactivate your pain.
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JD86

Hello, great podcast. I have a quick question. What if a thing a person is terrified of isn't something they can expose themselves to? Such as, a paralyzing fear of the future and what's in store given the state of the planet.....Having a child during these times, being a single parent whose in chronic pain for 5 years everyday, not having any family members or friends and feeling so overwhelmed and alone. I'm so scared of my daughter's future, or lack of and i belive that's a big part of what's keeping me stuck in pain. That, and that i'm on disability and cannot afford to see a pain specialist who knows how to teach me to teach my brain how to unlearned my learned neural pathway pain. Help!

Sep 22nd
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How Do I Teach My Brain to Deactivate My Pain?

How Do I Teach My Brain to Deactivate My Pain?

Alan Gordon, LCSW and Alon Ziv