@SophiaCycles Bea, am curious of your thoughts on how the gods were conceived of in ancient Greece. These narrative frames serve many purposes but lately I have wondered if they might have been semi-conscious outlets for the shadows of rulers in self-exculpation and scapegoating? Thoughts?
Many people feel the standard 0–10 pain scale misses important parts of the chronic pain experience. Patients and clinicians alike: what methods, descriptors, comparisons, or tracking tools have actually helped make pain easier to communicate or understand?
@Retlouping exactly! I just did a group where the understanding was already good, I tried the football analogy as another view of the same thing but it didn't add much and yet the right analogy can often be the clincher
@Retlouping Serious counter-proposal:- Any analogies for pain are perfectly fine as long as they conform to some basic standards
1- they hold the patient's symptoms
2- they hold what is known of the pathology
3- they facilitate both patient understanding of condition and a plan that helps
Without a direct line to the archetypal level, people sooner or later become depressed. Life becomes two-dimensional, a daily round of treadmill existence. Creativity dries up because daily communication with the creative matrix is gone. Ideas are no longer exciting.~M Woodman
You're trained as doctor & healer & yet I can't remember talking about the soul in medical school or residency. There's always going to be a need to address things of meaning. Patients don't come w/ a bunch of symptoms, they come in with their stories.~Sumit Anand [link below]