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Link Between Chronic Pain & Suicide

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The Link Between Chronic Pain and Suicide: Understanding and Prevention

The Link Between Chronic Pain and Suicide: Understanding and Prevention

By: Cindy Perlin, LCSW

Chronic pain not only leads to physical suffering but can also have severe psychological and emotional consequences. One of the most concerning correlations is the connection between chronic pain and suicide. Chronic pain patients are at least twice as likely to commit suicide as the general population. This article aims to shed light on this link, its underlying causes, and provide valuable prevention strategies.

Understanding the Link

Chronic pain and suicide are intertwined in a complex relationship that involves both physical and psychological factors.

Individuals living with chronic pain often experience a significant reduction in their overall quality of life. This can lead to feelings of hopelessness, despair, and isolation, which can contribute to the development of suicidal thoughts and attempts.

Key Factors Contributing to the Link:

  1. Psychological Impact: Chronic pain can lead to depression, anxiety, and feelings of hopelessness which increase the risk of suicide.
  2. Loss of Functionality: Many individuals with chronic pain find it challenging to engage in daily activities, work, or hobbies they once enjoyed. This loss of functionality can lead to feelings of inadequacy and a sense of purposelessness.
  3. Social Isolation: Chronic pain often limits an individual’s ability to socialize, leading to isolation and feelings of loneliness. Lack of social support can contribute significantly to the risk of suicide.
  4. Inadequate Pain Management: Poorly managed pain can exacerbate all the above factors. In some cases, individuals may turn to substances or risky behaviors in an attempt to alleviate their suffering, further compounding the risk.
  5. Stigma and Misunderstanding: People with chronic pain often face skepticism or disbelief from others, including family, friends, coworkers and healthcare providers. This can lead to a sense of invalidation and make it even more challenging to seek help.

The Connection Between Opioids and Suicide Risk

“The relationship between opioid prescribing and suicide risk is a complex one. This is particularly the case when people have their opioids tapered,” says Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology at Columbia School of Public Health. People can become desperate if their pain is not well controlled. Yet opioids also pose a greater risk of overdose than any other drug class and approximately 40 percent of overdose suicide deaths in the U.S. involve opioids. At a population level, the national decline in opioid prescribing over the last several years appears to have
reduced the number of people who died of suicide.”

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“If opioid prescribing per capita had held constant from 2009 to 2017, there would have been an estimated 10.5 percent more suicide deaths involving opioids in 2017,” noted Olfson. In the U.S., geographic regions with the greatest declines in people filling opioid prescriptions also tended to have the greatest declines in total suicide deaths.

People who abuse opioids are 14 times more likely to die by suicide compared to the general population, a statistic that shows the very strong link between mental distress, chronic pain, opioids and suicide.

Prevention Strategies

  1. Seek Professional Help: If you or someone you know is struggling with chronic pain and experiencing thoughts of suicide, it is crucial to seek help from a healthcare professional. They can provide a comprehensive evaluation, recommend appropriate treatments, and connect individuals with mental health resources.
  2. Comprehensive Pain Management: Effective pain management is essential in reducing the risk of suicide in individuals with chronic pain. Often pain patients lose hope when the limited options offered by conventional medicine don’t help. There are many little-known alternative pain treatments that can provide safe and effective pain relief. Search the Alternative Pain Treatment Directory for helpful information, products and alternative healthcare providers.
  3. Address Mental Health Concerns: It is vital to address any co-occurring mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, as part of a comprehensive treatment plan.
  4. Build a Support System: Establishing a strong support network is crucial. Friends, family, and support groups can provide emotional support and a sense of belonging, which can significantly improve an individual’s outlook and resilience.
  5. Education and Awareness: Raising awareness about the link between chronic pain and suicide is essential in reducing stigma and fostering understanding. Education can help individuals recognize the signs of distress in themselves or others and encourage seeking help.
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Resources for Prevention

  1. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (USA): 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) – Provides free, confidential support 24/7.
  2. Crisis Text Line (USA): Text “HOME” to 741741 – A free, confidential texting service for individuals in crisis.
  3. International Suicide Hotlines: For a comprehensive list of suicide hotlines around the world, visit https://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html.
  4. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Provides resources, support, and education for individuals and families dealing with mental health conditions. Website: https://www.nami.org/.

Conclusion

The link between chronic pain and suicide is a serious concern that requires attention and intervention. By understanding the complex factors contributing to this connection and implementing prevention strategies and effective pain relief, we lessen the suffering that drives pain patients to want to end their lives.

Remember, seeking help is a sign of strength, and there are resources available to assist individuals in their journey towards improved mental and physical well-being.

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Activism, Pain Management, Psychological Aspects, Treatment

Free Speech Hangs in the Balance & Another Doctor Humiliated by Medical Board To Send a Message to All Doctors

**UPDATE**

Despite the following court case and a House committee investigation over the current administration’s aggressive censorship, hundreds of new staffers and volunteers have been hired to perform ONE job: fight ‘misinformation’ on social media.  Advertising has also been purchased and ‘grassroots allies’ are pushing their own counter messages. Rather than trust media companies to police this so-called ‘misinformation,’ campaign advisers trust their own resources to counter it. Generative AI can also be deployed to produce deep fakes — manipulated images or videos intended to deceive a viewer.  Haven’t we come a long way, baby?

https://rumble.com/v3hl9o3-in-9-days-free-speech-could-change-forever-redacted-with-natali-and-clayton.html    Video Here, Approx. 8 Min

Appeals Court Rules Against Government Censorship on Social Media

This might be the biggest threat to free speech in our lifetime! While an appeals court decided that the Biden administration still cannot censor speech on social media they gave the government 9 days to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The case revolves around the lawsuit brought by Missouri and Louisiana’s Attorneys General.

In July, a judge ruled that they had proven that the Biden administration had violated First Amendment rights by working directly with social media to censor speech about Covid and other topics. He ruled that they cannot do it any more.

The government appealed and the court agreed that the government had “ran afoul of the First Amendment” and still cannot do it.

The court also stated that self-censorship of those who when allowed to come back onto social media after being kicked off, is in fact injurious.

However, the government (which in this case applies to the White House, the Surgeon General, CDC, and the FBI) which violated our first Amendment rights can still follow up with social media and request content reports concerning their content-moderation, and ask them to be “on the lookout” for certain posts.

Evidently, NIAID, State Department, and CISA are not included in this ruling as there was not sufficient evidence that these groups coerced social media platforms.

Now, even Rumble is under attack by those claiming to “protect us.”

Please watch the following documentary which explains the bigger picture and the absolute need for censorship and control:

A Cry For Freedom

https://rumble.com/v24kf6k-a-cry-for-freedom-documentary.html  (Approx. 50 Min)

The insane plans of the World Economic Forum in their own words:
  • Vaccine based society
  • Social Credit Score
  • Constant fear
  • End of free speech & Internet governance
  • No wealth, no ownership, no small business & controlled finances
  • Weather warfare, blocking the sun, & no wilderness
  • Electric cars, limited travel, prison cities, & isolation of humanity
  • No human rights, virtual reality & total surveillance
  • Everyone a cyborg, artificial intelligence, & 5G mind control
  • Artificial food & food dependency
  • No elderly
Censorship in action:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/maine-medical-board-dr-meryl-nass-probation-draconian-sanctions/

Maine Medical Board Puts Dr. Meryl Nass on Probation, Imposes ‘Draconian’ Sanctions

The Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine on Tuesday found Dr. Meryl Nass guilty of medical incompetence and placed her on two-year probation, subject to remedial sanctions. Nass, who last month sued the board, said her case comes down to defending the patient-provider relationship.

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

In a unanimous vote, the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine on Tuesday found Dr. Meryl Nass guilty of multiple allegations of professional incompetence and placed Nass on probation for two years with a provisional license.

The board also issued a set of remedial sanctions that Nass must complete before being allowed to freely practice medicine again.

During its seventh day of hearings, the board determined Nass had violated medical record keeping standards for telemedicine and failed to provide informed consent to three COVID-19 patients for whom she had prescribed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Similarly to Lyme literate doctors who have been hung on crucible of Lyme for simply treating patients appropriately, Nass has had nothing but glowing reports from her patients.  Make no mistake, this probation has nothing to do with Nass’ competence but rather is about her utilizing ivermectin, HCQ, and for being outspoken about the dangers of the COVID clot shots.  She recently wrote this damning Substack – Myocarditis: What did the federal public health officials know and when did they know it?

A few points:

  • Myocarditis signal was known in Feb, 2021 but FDA and CDC hit it until they got the shots authorized for 12-15 year olds.
  • Myocarditis shows up within 4 days of the 2nd shot over 80% of the time so it’s hard to miss.
  • CDC & FDA continued to hide the myocarditis signal for the June, 2021 VRBPAC meeting.
  • Nass also exposes how the FDA used an army of researchers to get a paper entirely wrong.
The CDC has a long and sordid history of hiding, destroying, and manipulating data for their own end.

Completely corrupt public health agencies, and state medical boards run by a private nonprofit, are both in bed with Big Pharma, and are known for censoring and punishing physicians who use their own brains.

All of this is connected, and it all follows a much larger script which includes global control.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

ACP Extends Therapeutic Nihilism into 4th Year of Pandemic

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/american-college-of-physicians-extends?

American College of Physicians Extends Therapeutic Nihilism into Fourth Year of Pandemic

Biased Review Ignores Protocols, Thousands of Studies, Claims Only Two Government Authorized Drugs Can be Used for Ambulatory COVID-19

SEP 20, 2023

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Practicing physicians have lost trust in the associations and public health agencies that comprise the orthodoxy. The American College of Physicians represents internists and medical specialists. Their journal, Annals of Internal Medicine was trusted for years. The pandemic changed all of that forever.

The ACP and The Annals have not published or reprinted a single community of care COVID-19 protocol or paper on how to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection or manage mRNA vaccine injury syndromes. Their most recent contribution to the literature was a travesty.

Sommer et al published an a review that omitted thousands of studies and randomized trials of nasal sprays, gargles, oral generic medications, and multi-drug protocols. Incredulously, out of the mass of literature on early treatment for COVID-19, they selected 8 papers and quickly settled only two oral therapies that could be used—both products of government investment through Operation Warp Speed with Pfizer and Merck and with that bias arrived at this tepid conclusion: “Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and molnupiravir probably improve outcomes for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19.”

Sommer et al, Qaseem et al, https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/M23-1636

The Annals piled on more therapeutic nihilism with “Rapid Practice Points” from Qaseem et al which encourage use of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and molnupiravir and discourage use of ivermectin and sotrovimab (no off the market). What about the dozens of other drugs used today in standard-of-care? How about the McCullough Protocol as the most widely used approach in the world? Not a word or mention in The Annals. None of these authors claimed to have treated patients nor have they published protocols or clinical outcomes from own original research.

I have concluded the American College of Physicians among many medical organizations is captured by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex who is hell-bent on a vaccine-only strategy for this and future pandemics. They have no care or concern for sick patients or early therapeutics.

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**Comment**

Information about cheap, effective, safe COVID treatments has been out there from the beginning but has been highly censored, ignored, and even maligned by ‘the powers that be.”  This same corruption has been seen in Lymeland for over 40 years, so I don’t hold out much hope of this changing. The best we can do is find independent doctors (while we are able!) who are willing to listen, use their own God-given brains, and treat us appropriately.  Mainstream medicine including hospitals, “evidence-based” medicine, the monopolization of public health, professional medical groups, and research institutions are completely bought-out and not to be trusted. They are all guilty of disinformation which has killed thousands upon thousands of people.

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Activism, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

Is SOT For Lyme & Tick-borne Infections a Scam?

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/sot-lyme-treatment

Is SOT for Lyme & Tick-borne Infections a Scam?

SOT for Lyme Image from Marty Ross MD
By Dr. Marty Ross

Updated: 9/19/23

This update includes a review of research published by the manufacturer of Lyme SOT in late 2022. Based on my review of this new science, I have retitled this article: Is SOT for Lyme & Tick-borne Infections a Scam?

Probability of Health Improvement

  • My clinical experience: not enough experience to say
  • MyLymeData: no research conducted
  • RGCC Funded Research: biased study with inadequate data
  • Placebo effect benefit of any prescription medicine: 30-40 percent

For more information about the best research-supported germ killing approaches to recover from Lyme disease see What Works? Navigating Prescription & Alternative Medicine Lyme Treatments.

Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy Background

Supportive Oligonucleotide Therapy (SOT) is a new treatment for Lyme disease. SOT is also called Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy (ASOT), which is the term used in medical research papers. SOT uses laboratory-derived nucleic acids (genetic code) that blocks production of disease-causing proteins or even gene expression. These pieces of genetic code are called oligonucleotides. You can think of oligonucleotides as a genetic message.

For example, in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), SOT provides oligonucleotides to direct the correct production of a protein called dystrophin. People with muscular dystrophy are born with DNA that provides the wrong genetic message for dystrophin. SOT correction to the DNA message leads to production of dystrophin. This prevents the muscle damage seen in DMD.

In Lyme disease, a currently available type of SOT produced by RGCC in Greece uses oligonucleotides to stop germ growth and replication. Unlike the SOT therapy for DMD, the Lyme SOT is not an FDA-approved drug. To be approved by the FDA, a therapy must have scientific evidence of safety and effectiveness.

As I explain below, SOT does not alter DNA. Instead, it provides a short-term change to how the DNA blueprint is expressed.  (See link for article)

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Lyme, Treatment

A Personal Journey of Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit

https://www.lymedisease.org/erin-leopold-personal-journey/

A personal journey of healing body, mind, and spirit

By Erin Leopold

Aug. 23, 2023

I am listening, but it’s as if I am under water and everything they are saying is garbled and unclear. All I can think is, how do I have Lyme disease when I am sure I was tested several different times? Is this what I suffered with since I first got sick at age 17?

Despair and hopelessness flood my veins. Anger at how this wasn’t caught storms my mind. I am furious at all these doctors over the years who made me feel like I was crazy and that it’s all in my head! All the looks and comments from them implying I needed to see a shrink. NO! I trusted doctors to know what they were doing and help me but instead I faced continual dismissal like I was some hypochondriac. I am mad, and I’m not alone.

My name is Erin Leopold, and the above is an excerpt from my recently released memoir entitled Finding My Second Wind. My story begins as a 17-year-old high school junior making good grades, enjoying life with family and friends, and playing high-level soccer. I was the picture of health and resembled the All-American girl.

Suddenly, my life changed for the worse when I became extremely ill from an otherwise common childhood virus. It wasn’t long before life as I knew it came to a screeching halt as physical debilitation set in. I was also overcome with fear and anxiety.

Finding the root cause

Lyme disease and co-infections played a significant role in my life for 32 years, proving to be at the root of my 20+ medical diagnoses. I had SO many symptoms throughout these exhausting years: GI issues including numerous food allergies/intolerances; musculoskeletal pain including degenerative discs/stenosis/sciatica (led to two surgeries); severe outdoor allergies leading to chronic sinus infections; dizziness; brain fog; profuse sweating; weakness/neuropathy; anxiety; depression; confusion; burning and numbness in my extremities; migraines; insomnia; adrenal fatigue; and hormonal imbalances.

I used a balanced approach to treatment, leaning more towards functional/integrative medicine because allopathic medicine sought to treat symptoms only, and I desired a more holistic approach addressing root causes. I became my greatest advocate by voraciously studying all things nutrition and lifestyle changes. I did everything from taking an abundance of supplements and herbs to massage therapy, chiropractic care, infrared saunas, acupuncture, dry needling, active release/myofascial release, reiki, electromagnet shields/mattresses/shoe inserts, and detox baths. You name it and I probably did it.

Now, I am 54 and have been married for 30 years. I am a mom to three adult children and two fur babies. I love nature and the outdoors and have spent most of my life leading and teaching people through fitness and health.

Healing, finally

Like many of you reading this, I’ve gone through many ups and downs, victories and defeats. Yet things finally came together for me.

After years of treatments,  I began working to heal my soul and learned a lot about neuroplasticity and how the mind works. Dots started connecting. My faith is the cornerstone to that success as I began studying and meditating on the Word of God along with doing other reading/learning/therapies including transformational prayer, EMDR, DNRS, and works by top doctors in the neuroscience/brain field. It’s like one day I woke up and breakthroughs came!

Finding My Second Wind chronicles my personal journey of healing the spirit, soul, and body. If you find yourself running on a similar, unplanned road, I hope my story will equip you with useful tools and motivate you to never give up.

Erin Leopold lives in South Carolina. Click here for more information about her book.

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I could literally go onto infinity with these stories.  Unfortunately, while they help the public understand things better, they don’t appear to make one iota of difference in the medical field or in research.  Forty years have passed with little to no progress.  Patients are still mis or undiagnosed, untreated, suffer horrifically, and get ZERO help in mainstream medicine or most research.  Again, your best help will come from the maligned Lyme literate doctors who are continually persecuted by state medical boards.

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Activism, Lyme, Treatment