If you’re reading this, you probably suffer from chronic pain.
There’s also a good chance your condition was preceded by some sort of trauma. The connection between chronic pain and PTSD is real. There’s now a small but growing body of research that links these two conditions.
Fibromyalgia and trauma is also a two way street. Even the mainstream medical community is beginning to recognize that one can feed the other. Not only can trauma cause pain. But living with pain can also lead to being traumatized, according to a study published in the medical journal Pain.
Is Fibromyalgia Secondary to PTSD?
The positive takeaway from this is that it helps us understand why we have pain, and what we can do about it. I totally reject the premise that chronic pain is something we have to live with, and that it’s permanent and, oftentimes, progressive.
That’s because I’ve personally healed from excruciating pain, which followed a series of traumatic events. I do need to point out that I’m not a doctor a licensed mental health professional. So everything you read here is just presented as information only.