Nikki Albert
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I'm a fiction writer under the pen name Lily Hamilton and a blogger under my name. I live in Alberta, Canada with my common-law spouse and my cat. I'm currently on disability with fibromyalgia, chronic migraine disease and chronic vertigo
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Open letter from a person with chronic pain
Maybe explaining living with chronic pain to someone who doesn’t have it is impossible. Maybe it is like explaining infinity in a finite world. We can only count so far before we realize we can’t really comprehend infinity in our minds. And while everyone understands temporary pain the idea that pain persists, endures, and never goes away is beyond comprehension. The mind cannot imagine what that would be like. Mostly because the pain experience once over vanishes from the mind rapidly and becomes a vague memory. And trying to take that vague memory and imagining someone enduring that their entire lives is impossible. It is also impossible because chronic pain itself as an experience changes people and how we live in the world. It just is not the same as temporary pain… not the same in how someone reacts to it.
By Nikki Albert5 years ago in Longevity
Mad World
Perhaps we all carry within ourselves the potential of our own destruction that we battle with in our own way. And this friction is what causes suffering in our lives. Maybe everything inherently carries within it, its own destruction. Perhaps in life, we constantly fight that pull to self-destruct in whatever way is ours.
By Nikki Albert5 years ago in Psyche
