Like the way that Complex Region Pain Syndrome, or CRPS, affects your whole body, and not just one part of it, so too is it’s effects on you and your family. Even if you’re the only one afflicted with the sickness, your whole family feels its consequences. Though, yes, you’re the only one who feels the physical pain, you are not alone when it comes to the mental anguish and the emotional torture. Your family does not want to see you suffer, and because you are suffering, they cannot help but feel for you. And sometimes, they can go the other way. They can become skeptic of your pain, tired of taking care of your needs or even downright hostile towards you and your condition. Talk about rubbing salt into the wounds.
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