Hello Dreemsnake and Chrys,
Welcome to The Pain Community (TPC). We are happy that you have joined our community and look forward to sharing with you and getting to know you.
You are both correct there is a huge stigma in the general population and in the general medical community.
The Pain Community has multiple ways of meeting and making new friends who do truly understand.
Monday-Wednesday-Friday, here on the website we have hosted chats where you can meet and talk to folks who do understand.
Every Tuesday, we also host a support call, it is a conference call and it is free. Folks find the call refreshing because you can hear the emotions in the voices of others.
Here is a schedule and the call in info for the support calls; https://paincommunity.org/tpc-outreach-support-conference-calls/
The next support call will be, Tuesday, January 8th at 7pm ET, 6pm CT, 5pm MT and 4pm PT.
There is no registration required and you can share as much or as little as you wish about your journey on pain.
We hope that you will consider trying the calls.
If we can be of any assistance please let us know here or you can email; outreach@paincommunity.org
Take care,
TPC YaYa
TPC Community Moderator
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