Suicide and Pain: Research Explores Links to Suffering, Acceptance, Burden
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD—Walking among his three clinical research posters at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, pain expert David Fishbain, MD, stopped in his tracks and stated the obvious.
“As you can probably tell,” the Pain Medicine News editorial advisory board member said while waving at the three pieces of research he was involved in, “we are pretty interested in suicidality.”
That interest has spawned a series of studies on various psychological aspects of suicidality in pain patients from Dr. Fishbain and his colleagues from Florida’s University of Miami School of Medicine. The three works explore questions surrounding the effects of burden, acceptance and suffering on both pain and suicidality. The studies, presented in poster form at the AAPM meeting, also touch on specific predictors and screening strategies to assess for suicidality in a pain population.
The Burden of Burden
Dr. Fishbain and his colleagues explored the role that feeling like a burden plays in both acute pain patients (APP) and chronic pain patients (CPP) with regard to suicidality (poster 153). Self-perceived burden (SPB) has been linked to depression and suicidality (Pain 2012;153[8]:1735-1741).
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it's not a popular cause but I try, stubborn I guess 
When I tell them I have chronic intractable pain they cannot wrap their idiotic minds around it.
They figure you to be a drug addict looking for more.
For this reason, I have kicked the damn morphine OUT THE DOOR as I am so very tired of trying to deal with this aspect of my life that allows others to treat me like a criminal, yes, a CRIMINAL!
Should I commit suicide, that is MY choice and NO ONE can do a damned thing about it! NOPE!
Power to The People!!!
even when looking for a new Neurologist to handle my Hydrocephalus. I tell them my history and right away they assume I'm looking for a fix 
Thank you for your reply, you are not alone people out there do understand.
CIT = Chronic Intractable Pain and yes IT SUCKS and with the War on the Sick combined with the War on Drugs those with CIT are rather screwed!! 
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