People in this thread keep talking about suffering. I would like to disambiguate: suffering is not pain. Suffering is focusing on the pain and assuming that we should not have pain (and being lost in the idea that they should somehow be free of how they feel).

There is a lot of stuff about mental resiliency (and what to do with chronic pain - emotional and physical) that talks about how to deal with pain.

> quite often there is no viable solution.

There might not be a 'solution' to removing pain. Pain is a fact of life. Its what we do with it that matters.

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