We have all struggled with physical and mental pain in Covid-19. The world has known physical and mental pain. Many of us are still having to work through that pain.

Covid-19

Many of us who caught Covid are now dealing with long-covid. New research shows that 2 million people may have had long-covid. (Source: gov.uk) So, having gone from a life, they're now dealing dealing with physical and mental pain.

I caught Covid in November 2022 and was still recovering when my twin died, and that caused me mental pain. I know my character, as hard as it would have been to say goodbye, I wanted one more time.

Eagle Syndrome

Although some of my symptoms are very similar to that of Trigeminal Neuralgia, having had hospital tests and seen a myofascial consultant, I have now been diagnosed with Eagle Syndrome.

I live with myofascial pain in the face, which radiates towards my ear and includes stabbing, sharp pains and a dull ache. I am desperately trying to get a handle on it.

We can all carry physical and mental pain, perhaps not at the same time, but it's the nature of the beast that we will carry pain.

Internalising can make things easier

Internalising can make things easier, because we're able to place things better. The physical pain that I currently deal with isn't easy to predict or to know how to handle. Away from my blog, I hibernate a lot.

Cancer

But carrying any form of physical and mental pain, or carrying baggage, can turn into cancer if too much of what we carry isn’t addressed. 1 in 2 will have cancer in their lifetime, isn't now a good time to deal with mental health? We hear about other people struggling with cancer, but fail to make the correlation back to our own physical and mental health.

The toll on our physical and mental health

Again, what is it going to take to deal with mental health? To read the article to buy and read the book. To start being proactive. It is important to talk, to get things out into the open.

There isn’t a day go by where I’m not talking about something.