Living with Pain: Psychological Trauma and Pain
My friend Bobby and I decided it was too hot on a June afternoon in Kentucky to continue playing basketball on the court outside our…
Articles Written By: Mark Maginn, Columnist
This author has written 47 articles
Living with Pain: Medical Trauma and the Birth of Pain
Over 25 years ago, I was introduced to the outer limits of pain and the first of over 35 kidney stones, emergency rooms visits, and…
Living with Pain: Collagenous Colitis and the Devil
It always comes with little warning, but even when I recognize the Klaxon has sounded it may already be too late. And too late is…
Living with Pain: Time and Aging
I have been in pain for a half century. Yes, for 50 years. In my early 20s I was finally diagnosed with a spinal problem,…
Living with Pain: Pet Therapy
The central California sun beat down relentlessly on the parking lot. Most of the curious and a few buyers confined their browsing to the shade…
Living with Pain: Prejudice and Mistreatment
There is a steady and continuing drum beat in the press and from researchers and commentators warning of the dangers connected to prescribing and using…
Living with Pain: The Search for Meaning
There comes a point in the struggle with chronic pain when the person under assault begins the search for meaning. This isn’t to say that…
Living with Pain: Lighting a Match to Put Out a Fire
It was winter, 1980. I was working at a mental health clinic in Chicago. The unmistakable electricity of conflict entered the room like a live…