The article matches my experience and that of many others. It also mentions some key ideas that I haven't seen in other RSI/pain-epiphany writeups: - It may take a variety of resources to accept the idea that your pain doesn't mean injury (see the first image). Like, you might hear about Sarno's mindbody connection and think it's total quackery because of the language. Maybe it triggers the BS detector in a lot of us. So listen to the same ideas from other perspectives. The author links to Schubiner's talk on chronic pain, which I heartily recommend as the right balance of rigor and tone: ▶ this video . Curable helped me too: [link] . Click through until you get to the audio sections and give them a listen. Testimonials from tech people may help break the old mental model of pain, or at least point convincingly to resources that do. Josh Comeau, the CSS guy, has a post that links to further testimonials: https:www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/mindbody - The second half of healing is calming down the nervous system. The author accomplished this with different therapies, equipped with greater awareness and tools. Others fix their default stress state by leaving the stressful environment, i.e. changing jobs. Either way, the pain goes away. Kudos to the author for presenting everything clearly.
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