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Pain is a symptom not a disease

Im not saying clumsiness, anxiety or forgetfulness dont exist either



Does fibromyalgia exist? Tension headaches? What about chronic fatigue or irritable bowel syndrome? How are they diagnosed?


Pain is a symptom of all those diseases, which is why is said "Pain is a symptom not a disease"


Yet the threshold is vague and arbitrary


Whats that got to do with clumsiness and forgetfulness being a disease?


They are all subjective, arbitrary, "not observable", "in the mind", "not objective"




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