it started off with what was billed as a computer injury, a repetitive strain injury. And the pain

was so severe in the beginning that I actually couldn't lift a dinner plate if it had food on it.

Within about six or seven months of the onset of my arm pain, I had to quit my work. And I was out of work

for the most part for the next nine or so years. So that was a big blow to my ego, of course,

because here I had trained for so many years to become a physician. and then all of a sudden I couldn't work at all

because every job was becoming one in which you had to interact with computers. Despite being

highly trained to understand both the mind and the body, I had no idea for the 10 years of my chronic pain that my mind was causing

these symptoms.

This is like mind, like body, a podcast about the crazy ways our thoughts and feelings can actually shape our physical health.

I'm your host, Laura Sago, and on each episode, I'll speak with researchers, physicians, and ordinary people who have

incredible stories to tell about the power of the mind-body connection.

This podcast is brought to you by Curable, an app that gives you safe, effective tools

to understand and heal chronic pain.

You can download Curable in the Apple App Store,

on Google Play, or learn more at our website, curablehealth.com. On today's episode, I'm speaking

with Dr. Elisa Bonn-Batson. She's a double-boarded physician in both internal medicine and

psychiatry. She currently practices in Nashville, where physician in both internal medicine and psychiatry.

She currently practices in Nashville where she uses both of those specialties to help her

patients heal from severe, unexplainable pain conditions.

And there's a reason why she's so good at what she does.

She's been there, personally.

Today, Dr. Batson shares the story of her own struggles with multiple severe pain conditions.

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