IMO, these two graphics represents the typical chronic pain pt… as quite as a “church mouse” and as invisible as a “ghost”
This showed up on a Face Book post …
My friend hung herself Christmas morning. She could no longer take the pain. She tried for a year and a half. She lost her job and had to move in with her son. She spent her last months home bound. She was very scared and alone. The pain was bad enough where she needed help getting into the bath…
Everyone please think of her today. This could be any one of us….
How much can you take? It’s not like she could put the pain away in a drawer for a while. She couldn’t just take a vacation from it. It caused her daily severe panic and fear of leaving the house…Or thinking of the future. She left no note …
According to the CDC nearly 40 K people will commit suicide this year… but apparently they don’t keep stats on the means of suicide.. although they keep separate stats on legal drugs overdose and all drugs overdoses… and they don’t explain if legal drug deaths are included in all drug overdoses… which – if so – would make the deaths by overdose look worse that it really is. We don’t know how many of these 40 K suicides are contributed to by failure or denial of care by our medical system.. out of fear from the DEA …
Was the genesis of this poor woman’s action based on a prescriber insisting that her opiate doses had to be reduced or a Pharmacist “not being comfortable” filling her prescriptions for opiates ?
Here is a definition of involuntary manslaughter:
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Poor woman
“My friend hung herself Christmas morning. She could no longer take the pain.”
I know exactly how she felt…