You Are Not Broken
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You Are Not Broken
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Episode summary Dr. Ya-Ling turns eight weeks of argument about language onto her own book. Neither "fix" nor "damage" is good pain science, and she explains what she actually means by each, why they're on the cover anyway, and what it costs to meet people in the vocabulary they arrive with. The closing episode of the run.
In this episode
• Why inflammation is the fire in the title, and why that's the one word Dr. Ya-Ling has no problem with
• Why there is rarely real damage in everyday pain, and what faulty adaptation produces instead
• Damage as disrupted communication between body and nervous system — always restorable
• Why there are no fixes, only repatterning and restoration of function
• The trade-off in using the words people already reach for when they're frightened
• The translation: what fire, damage and fixing each mean across the series
• A closing summary of the whole eight-week run
Resources mentioned - Fix the Fire Damage (Vol. 2, The Everyday Pain Guide) - Put Out the Fire (Vol. 1, The Everyday Pain Guide) - Better Pain Coping — Dr. Ya-Ling's Substack
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