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Ahhh more ableist classics
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It’s terribly worded, but unfortunately it’s kinda true. I have a good friend who got severe nerve damage falling while doing arb work, wrenched his shoulder. Basically, one of his major nerves was constantly firing. He was on tons of anti inflammatories and morphine, until they gave him a therapy that slowly taught his brain to ignore the signal from that one nerve. It took a long time, but he’s completely pain free now.
CBT for pain does not make the pain go away. It helps you cope and perceive the pain as less, that’s completely different than the pain going away, the science is clear on this.
The pain is still there and the same amount, you just have coping mechanisms to better deal with it and focus on it less.
Thinking the pain away is complete pseudoscience.
It’s not Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that he had, it’s a specific technique for nerve pain. It wouldn’t work on an injury, but as his problem was basically just one nerve transmitting the message long after the physical damage had healed, he had a long course of a physical therapy that teaches the body to go through the range of motion of the afflicted part without noticing the message from that one nerve.