> It slowly consumes you. However, research suggests that catastrophizing can lead to acute pain becoming chronic and that it increases activity in the brain re

> It slowly consumes you. However, research suggests that catastrophizing can lead to acute pain becoming chronic and that it increases activity in the brain related to anticipation of and attention to pain. A few years ago after motorcycle accident i broke without knowing a few bone in my leg. The urgency didn't see it despite making scan. I went out of the hospital a few hours after and back to school, walking on the broken leg for days. Obviously it got worse to the point where my leg was red black from the foot toe to the very top. After that, the pain came and it was constant, just like the author, but to the point where I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks. I spent days on the sofa in pain, falling asleep every 30 minutes but waking up literally just a few seconds after because of the pain. A man can take a lot of pain but the kind that is constant and makes you sleep deprived is absolute torture. I surprised myself of thinking what is the best way to end it all. Finally, I went to the urgency because it was either that or I was going to end myself. They gave me morphines over and over, felt good for a few seconds but then it would stop and the pain come back. At some point I received enough morphine so that I went unconscious, slept for a long time and at wake up it was all gone. The leg was still completely red, they say I went very close from having a Blood clot kill me but the pain was just completely gone. My 2 cents, pain is a lot in the head. The more you think about it, the more it consumes you. It's easy to say don't think about it, but it's actually what you got to do.