The worst part of chronic pain
I grew up with undiagnosed chronic pain and I feel the worst part is how people treat you.
They tell you that everyone should listen to their body except you, cause if you do it's bad, it's lazy, sinful and hateful. They laugh at you for being too weak, they ask you things like "how are you going to bear real pain when you're old like us?". They tell you you're an attention seeker and you're making things up.
So you learn to tune out the pain until your body shuts down or your mind crumbles and even then you have to keep going or you're the worst person ever.
And then you get your diagnosis and you have to unlearn everything you've been told by everyone around you, even doctors, you have to learn to take it easy, to take breaks, to listen to your body... You have to learn your pain is valid, even though everyone is still telling you it's not, cause they don't know what real pain is.
That's not easy to be nice to your body when it's not nice to you.