20 Things to NEVER say to a person in Chronic Pain

1) You’re Just being Lazy

2) Have you tried this (insert any type of medication)

3) Have your tried this (insert any organic method)

4) You need to change your diet and try this one.

5) My (friend, relative) etc has the same thing and you know what worked for them?

6) It’s all in your head.

7) Did you pray about it? Maybe you should talk to your pastor.

8) Maybe you should get up and go exercise .

9) If you focused on something else you would feel better.

10) Suck it up, everyone has pain.

11) You sure do complain a lot.

12) You are always in pain!!!

13) Have you seen a doctor?

14) Have you taken anything?

15) You must love the attention you get from being sick all the time.

16) You can’t be feeling bad again!!!

17) You ruin every special occasion because your sick.

18) You couldn’t possibly be in “that” much pain.

19) Why can’t “they” just fix you?

20) You don’t “look” handicapped/in pain!

So why are most of these just not ok to say to people in chronic pain? You can pick out the ones that are accusatory and deduct that obviously any one who is in constant pain doesn’t exactly want to be accused of making it up, faking it or doing it for attention.

Next, Many of these comments suggest that pain can not be THAT bad or THAT frequent and it can… it really can and it’s so unfortunate for both our loved ones and for us. Trust us we know you suffer because of us.

Last Edited by Relativity on 01/19/2021 08:55 PM