Comments on: Descriptions of Pain in Age of Iron http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: How to Cope with Pain http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-17839 How to Cope with Pain Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:20:03 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-17839 Ann, can you say more about what you mean? Ann, can you say more about what you mean?

]]> By: Ann http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-17837 Ann Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:03:01 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-17837 They only bother me, because they "are" me!! It amazes me that so many of us write in great, heartfelt detail about our pain, thinking it is our own. Not so. They only bother me, because they “are” me!! It amazes me that so many of us write in great, heartfelt detail about our pain, thinking it is our own. Not so.

]]> By: Allyson http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-6641 Allyson Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:40:43 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-6641 You asked, "Do you write poetry? HtCwP" Barely. But I love language and write when inspired. Mostly prose. You asked, “Do you write poetry?
HtCwP”

Barely. But I love language and write when inspired. Mostly prose.

]]> By: How to Cope with Pain http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-6639 How to Cope with Pain Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:35:25 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-6639 Allyson, Thank you for your moving comment. Do you write poetry? HtCwP Allyson,
Thank you for your moving comment. Do you write poetry?
HtCwP

]]> By: Allyson http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-6638 Allyson Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:14:15 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-6638 "The pain was creeping back, bringing with it nausea and the first edge of the familiar shadow of depression." Coetzee's experience comforts me. Alone with it's sharp advance and dull retreat, pain cancels my connection with others. I know pain. We live together under thin skin. Pain's symphony holds me fast. Fierce hope is no longer my companion. Unseen, daily pain never shifts down to fatal. Never will. And yet.... "Despite all the glooms and despairs and rages, I have not let go of my love of [Life]" Please, Don't insult me with chirpy recipes or twittering platitudes. I have my God, I have my purpose. Twenty years later, I don't want a cheerleader. A moment, quiet understanding, can remind my spirit of acceptance and then peace. Coetzee writes the rhythm of my experience. I am grateful to be seen. To share. To know an other. Thank you. “The pain was creeping back, bringing with it nausea and the first edge of the familiar shadow of depression.”

Coetzee’s experience comforts me.

Alone with it’s sharp advance and dull retreat, pain cancels my connection with others. I know pain. We live together under thin skin.

Pain’s symphony holds me fast. Fierce hope is no longer my companion. Unseen, daily pain never shifts down to fatal. Never will. And yet….

“Despite all the glooms and despairs and rages, I have not let go of my love of [Life]”

Please,

Don’t insult me with chirpy recipes or twittering platitudes. I have my God, I have my purpose. Twenty years later, I don’t want a cheerleader. A moment, quiet understanding, can remind my spirit of acceptance and then peace.

Coetzee writes the rhythm of my experience. I am grateful to be seen. To share. To know an other.

Thank you.

]]> By: emily http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/278/pain-age-of-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-6537 emily Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:22:09 +0000 http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/?p=278#comment-6537 i don't like reading pain descriptions or books about headaches/migraines. i do read books in researching and learning about migraines, but it always seems to provide less distraction from pain than i'd like; causes me to focus more on the pain i have. i also sometimes find them depressing. i do enjoy emily dickinson's poetry re:pain. i don’t like reading pain descriptions or books about headaches/migraines. i do read books in researching and learning about migraines, but it always seems to provide less distraction from pain than i’d like; causes me to focus more on the pain i have. i also sometimes find them depressing.

i do enjoy emily dickinson’s poetry re:pain.

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