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What is a ‘pain game’? It is often an expensive and emotionally exhausting experience for the patient and family and a long-standing disappointment for the medical profession. The term ‘game’ to doctors specialising in pain relief refers to the patient’s ways of behaving and reacting, as well as the family — and even the doctor. All have developed in reaction to the pain itself. When patients allow their suffering to control their behaviour, they are playing a ‘game’. There is thus little chance of relief. And there are no winners. Pain is more than just a hurt. Strangely, for many, it is a way of life. It may begin as a short game but sometimes it takes over and patients can find themselves trapped in the role they have unwittingly created for themselves. The symptoms can become a habit and this can then slide into a lifestyle. From the patient’s point of view, the therapy and treatment have usually been ineffective, sometimes destructive and often very costly.

Some build their lifestyle around their pain. They actually enjoy their poor health. While every day and night is an ordeal ranging from discomfort to downright agony, they at the same time find it as comfortable as putting on an old pair of slippers. Their pain has the comforting ring of normality. Relieving the pain actually disrupts their attitude-behaviour system. At the very least, pain behaviour is a mindless bad habit. It can be broken, but, it can also become an addiction.

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