My Several Worlds - Chronic Pain and Disability Awareness

09/02/2025

It's and I'm featuring pain stats all month long for . Join in and help us raise awareness by commenting and sharing. Follow my page for pain stats every day this month. ~Carrie

CHRONIC PAIN STATISTICS

🔴 CHRONIC PAIN IN NUMBERS

100 MILLION The number of Americans who suffer from chronic pain.

ONE IN TEN Americans has experienced pain every day for three months or more

1.5 BILLION+ The number of people worldwide who suffer from chronic pain

🔴 MOST COMMON TYPES OF CHRONIC PAIN
27% Low back pain
15% Headache/Migraine
15% Neck pain
4% Facial pain

► EFFECTS OF CHRONIC PAIN
77% of people report feeling depressed due their chronic pain
51% of chronic pain sufferers feel they have little or no control over their pain
20% of American adults report that pain disrupts their sleep at least a few nights a week

🔴 WHERE DO PEOPLE SEEK HELP?
63% Doctor
15% Chiropractor
25% Doctor specializing in pain

🔴 PAIN AS A CAUSE OF LONG-TERM DISABILITY

#1 CHRONIC PAIN is the number one cause of long-term disability in the United States.

HEADACHES, MIGRAINES, AND FACIAL PAIN
2x women are twice as likely to suffer from severe headaches or migraines and facial pain than me

PERSISTENT PAIN THAT WON'T GO AWAY
7% of persistent lower back pain cases develop into chronic pain.

Compiled/curated by The Good Body


REAL

09/01/2025

September is . I've lost track of how many years I've participated in this event and can only say that it's been over a decade.

Chronic pain is devastating. It affects and infects every aspect of your life. The only thing we can do is continue.

Pick yourself up every day and keep going! You reach a breaking point many times when you don't know HOW to keep going, but you do. You keep going.

This is my chronic pain story. I hope it helps others understand what it is like to live with in pain. You are not alone.

🔗 https://www.myseveralworlds.com/2019/09/19/lets-talk-about-pain-chronic-pain-awareness-month/

09/01/2025

Did you know 350+ million people around the world live with rheumatic diseases? It's aka

This awareness initiative is led by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) with rheum patients and orgs around the world highlighting 100+ rheumatic diseases this month.

Common Rheumatic Diseases: Spondyloarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Gout, Lupus, APS, Vasculitis, Sjogren’s Syndrome, Scleroderma, Polymyalgia Rheumatica & more. We advocate for awareness and push for better care and more research. Learn more here:
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https://www.myseveralworlds.com/autoimmune-disease-101/

09/01/2025

It's okay if you thought you were over it, but it hits you all over again.
It's okay to fall apart even if you thought you had it under control.
You're not weak.
Healing is messy.
And there's no timeline for
healing.

Credit: Mintelligence

09/01/2025

... DEVASTATING


"It affects every single aspect of your life, and the only thing we can do is continue...pick yourself up every day, and keep going. You reach a point many times when you don't know how to keep going, but you do."

September is .
➡️ Use the hashtag and your description.

Let's Talk About Pain!
🔗 link in comments

09/01/2025

September is a huge month for awareness. Look at all the different awareness causes we support every September!

🔴 Chronic Pain Awareness aka

🔴 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

🔴 Sickle cell disease

🔴 Rheumatic Disease Awareness Month ( )

🔴 Ovarian Cancer Awareness

🔴 Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness

🔴 Arthritis Awareness 🇨🇦

🔴 Muscular Dystrophy Awareness 🇨🇦

🔴 Migraine Awareness (Sept 4-10)

🔴 Alzheimer's Awareness

🔴 S*cide Prevention Month

🔴 Reye's Syndrome Awareness

08/31/2025

The Travel Vault:

Too often, people fly to a destination and miss the country they're traveling to.

Whenever possible, drive! We entered Cambodia by bus. Despite having a bruyal scam border crossing in Thailand, we decided to drive from to . I will never forget driving quietly through the Cambodian countryside and the pictures of country life that flashed by. Read more:
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https://www.myseveralworlds.com/2007/12/16/journey-through-the-cambodian-countryside/

08/31/2025

In Their Own Words: MECFS & Fibromyalgia Patients Describe Their Symptoms by Health Rising by Cort Johnson

"I would not wish this illness on my worst enemy (if I had one)... sometimes I wish the naysayers could live in our bodies."
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https://www.healthrising.org/forums/resources/in-their-own-words-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-and-fibromyalgia-patients-describe-their-symptoms.199/

I would not wish this illness on my worst enemy (if I had one), but sometimes I wish the naysayers could live in our bodies for a few days.. The symptoms are taken from a thread on the Health Rising Forums in which people with ME/CFS and FM were...

08/31/2025

Ankylosing spondylitis

You stand until it hurts so
you sit
You sit until it hurts so you lie
down
You lie down until it hurts so you stand.
Wash and repeat.

Credit: Nikki

So true! When I got my diagnosis in 2009, my joints were so swollen and my back was so bad, I could barely stand, but sitting in a wheelchair was equally torturous. Over the years with this disease, I've learned over and over again that standing, sitting, and lying down are all agony when it's active and wreaking havoc. I also have to watch where I sit because some things are simply impossible to sit on!

08/30/2025

Incredible news for Taiwan's campaign. It's hard to believe it has come so far since our first meeting in March 2023! Onwards and upwards, Taiwan!

My Several Worlds continues to highlight the problems that disabled individuals face in Taiwan each day and I look forward to more progress as time goes by!

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

08/30/2025

I use art to cope with . I adore flower arranging especially . Have a look at 14 Japanese floral arrangements along with my comments on my creative process with living art at
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https://buff.ly/33LTe9h