🧠 The AI Inside: Why Chronic Pain Isn’t Just a Longer Version of Acute Pain
Most people think chronic pain is just acute pain that won’t go away. But they’re not the same thing — not even close.
Acute pain is like a reflex. It responds to damage, follows a predictable path, and usually fades as healing happens. But chronic pain behaves more like artificial intelligence: it adapts, it learns, and it builds patterns based on your history, beliefs, fears, and environment.
This isn’t pain as a symptom — it’s pain as a system. If we want to change the output, we have to change the way we understand it. Chronic pain doesn’t just protect you from injury. It protects a pattern. And that means it can be re-trained.