Just try and find an escape. Just find something else to take your mind off it, even if it's only for half an hour a day. Something that you enjoyed. When I was at school, like I say, I wasn't brilliant at art at school. I didn't go forward and do any levels in it or anything, but I was always quite, I could copy things, I could copy a drawing.
So I thought “well, why not try it?” So I tried that and I enjoy it and it's very relaxing, painting or doing a jigsaw, some people might like to do a jigsaw or they might want to get out and, I don't know, film something, a tree or something, just anything, just something that'll take your mind off it for a little while, if it's something that you'll enjoy or something that'll be a challenge to you as well.
The more challenges you get thrown at you, the more ways you find to overcome them. So that's sort of... and just try and be positive. Don't look for the black side of everything. Don't look for a downside. It's very hard, but just try and be positive and know that one day something, something will give, something's got to give as they say, so at the end of the day it'll get better, or it could get worse before it gets better, but there is something out there that will help.
Then find it, find anything you can, take any advice you can. Pain management clinics, start there, that's the best starting point for anybody in pain. I would suggest to anybody that's suffering long-term chronic pain to go and see somebody that knows how to manage pain and then they'll teach you how to overcome it and just to concentrate on different things, rather than what you're experiencing day to day. |
