Your Beliefs about Pain Understanding Pain requires learning new concepts. If you already hold inaccurate beliefs about the pain, we need to undo these first. This may put you in conflict with your pre-existing (less accurate) knowledge and fight against accepting new (hopefully more accurate) information. It is common for people with chronic or persistent pain to have faulty ideas about how the body works and what is causing the symtpoms. While we still have a lot to learn about pain, we refer to these as misconceptions. Faulty ideas are held at various levels indicating both how strongly you hold the knowledge and how challenging it will be to change. Pain Belief Category 1 Missing bits – You have a reasonably accurate concept but … Continue reading Understanding Pain