Chronic Pain

It sounds unbelievably hard to have thankfulness for anything while struggling with a condition specifically characterized by unending pain. If we know that pain and stress have a direct effect on the mind, then we generally feel much worse the more pain we’re in. How can anyone who is struggling with ceaseless discomfort experience anything…

In 2006, Swedish researchers discovered a large family in the northernmost region of the country sharing a particularly strange and dangerous mutation: a congenital insensitivity to pain. Yet far from being a superpower, the ability to live without a perception or concept of pain is often lethal. Pain is critical to the human experience. Like…