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When you cannot find meaning in suffering

My therapist says I need to find meaning in my suffering but my chronic pain has been going on for three years and I cannot find anything meaningful about it at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand to extract meaning from pain can become another source of suffering when meaning refuses to emerge.

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