To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine
I&#x27;ve been living this horror for six years. If I could just magically stop using medicine and not being treated like a drug addict for merely taking prescribed medicine by all walks of society (from cops, to nurses, to neighbors), don&#x27;t you think I&#x27;d have already fucking taken that choice?<p>The majority of people don&#x27;t want to be on pills. They want to get better. If I&#x27;m in too much pain to physically get out of bed, how am I supposed to exercise? It sounds like this is just an advertisement for CBT, and 90% of it is summed up as &quot;get an anti-depressant&quot; and &quot;go to therapy.&quot; Well everyone is already doing that.<p>I mean, are we really going to suggest everyone in the medical industry related to pain management is just a scam? That doctors don&#x27;t try a mirade of tools to help their patients and instead just throw addictive pills at them? Surely some do. But who says &quot;I want to go to medical school to sell pills&quot; instead of &quot;helping people&quot;?<p>I don&#x27;t know. I find it hard to analytically process this article since I&#x27;m so close to the source. But I literally spend &gt;60% of my days in complete writhing agony. I had to FIGHT to get the medicine I needed and I had to FIGHT to get the back surgeries that took me from almost dying to &quot;surviving.&quot; So if the world is really handing out pills and surgeries, it sure as hell wasn&#x27;t doing it in my area.