Top 18 Chronic Pain Stigma Quotes
#1. I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don't have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.
Sonya Huber
#2. Required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.
Ted Conover
#3. I can get a dance party started pretty much anywhere and anytime.
Claire Danes
#5. Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.
George Takei
#6. There are a lot of victims when it comes to addiction. I know there's an overdose epidemic. We see those faces. But then I see these other faces - the ones who commit suicide because they can't handle the pain. Those faces mean just as much to me.
Donna Marsh
#7. I'm not saying you should marry wossisname. Just give yourself a chance with him."
"A chance to what?"
"Be with someone again."
"I w-w-want to," I whispered. "But what if it goes the same way? W-what if I'm unbeable with?
Alexis Hall
#8. Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse opioids are prescribed them by a doctor, and only 13% of ER visits for opiate overdoses were chronic pain patients. Most chronic pain patients are rule-followers who just want to function.
Sonya Huber
#9. Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain in any one place. Sorrow is a son of Hell who does not release his prey until he has torn it to pieces.
Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda
#10. While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Ron Eglash
#11. In the debate over opioid addiction, there's one group we aren't hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs on a long-term basis.
S. E. Smith
#13. San Francisco hosted the first medical marijuana job fair. The keynote speech was titled, 'Jobs and How to Avoid Getting One.'
Jay Leno
#14. And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
Hermann Hesse
#16. Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so oblivious to the fact that proper treatment for pain is, well, not a bad thing.
Anna Hamilton
#17. He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.
Mark Twain
#18. We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,
Jeff Pulver
