I don't know about anyone else (any of the other teens and young adults on the board), but I'm not old enough to actually have "old" memories. I certainly wasn't before I got RSD at the age of 12!

Really, this doesn't sound very promising. I'd rather they actually treat the pain than the "emotional effects." Really, it's just another way of trying to make it seem like we're all just crazy people who let some pain take hold of our lives, which is not true.

So, I'm pretty much rewriting this...I reacted very badly to my first read-through because it seemed at first like the old "it's all in your head" routine. It's not quite that, but it's not particularly helpful either.

Sorry to anyone who read what I wrote first! Perhaps all those years of doctors telling me I was crazy have made me a little angrier than I like to let on.