but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.’
And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn’t real.
We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize.
The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt.
And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.
Nor do either of those terms connote the courage people in such pains exemplify,
which is why I’d ask you to frame your mental health around a word other than crazy.” “Yeah,” I said.
“Can you say that? Can you say that you’re courageous?” I screwed up my face at her.
“Don’t make me do that therapy stuff,” I said. “That therapy stuff works.”
“I am a brave warrior in my internal Battle of Valhalla,” I deadpanned. She almost smiled.
“Let’s talk about a plan to take that medication every single day,” she said,
and then proceeded to talk about mornings versus evenings, and how we could also try to get off the medication and try a different one,
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