How to Deal with Chronic Pain: Psychological Causes and Treatments

Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 7 p.m.

Acute pain can usually be trusted.\xa0Chronic pain is trickier.\xa0There may have been initial tissue damage, but instead of decreasing the pain as the damage healed, it increased: chronic pain usually gets worse, not better.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)