Maybe you can trace your pain back to a specific moment: a car accident, a surgery, a day you pushed too hard at the gym. But maybe you can't. Maybe the pain just... appeared. Gradually at first, then more insistently. No dramatic incident, injury, or origin story. Just a body that started hurting one day and never really stopped. Or maybe your symptoms don't even fit neatly into the category of "pain." There's the exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. The ringing in your ears.
