Parallel worlds and personified pain: A mixed-methods analysis of pain metaphor use by women with endometriosis.
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the power of language in facilitating understanding and empathy in the listener, alongside the challenge of communicating endometriosis pain to others. Imagery-based techniques may assist in adaptation to, interpretation, and acceptance of pain to reduce pain-related distress.
PMID: 32920887 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: British Journal of Health Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bullo S, Hearn JH Tags: Br J Health Psychol Source Type: research