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Recommended books for physical/chronic pain? I've read Seneca, Montaigne, and Schopenhauer, and I want more. If I'm content in life with no worries/anxieties it seems chronic pain in my back or shoulders returns. There's some mention of it here and there in DeLillo and other places that don't come right to mind. Pic used to be related.

>> No.10422170
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10422170

Lift weights and become /fitlit/ and stop being a pussy.

>> No.10422311

'In the Land of Pain,' by Alphonse Daudet is you can get it. It's the first and maybe last place you have to go . Helped me through a spell of back issues. A beautiful introduction by Julian Barnes too, in most modern translations

>> No.10422323

Please delete that image. I'm trying to quit.

>> No.10422339

God I love oxycontin

>> No.10422379

>>10420756
which DeLillo is it in? I know there's some in Mao II but is there elsewhere?

>> No.10422392

>>10420756

Studying eastern philosophy often helps people find ways to change their response to pain so that while they feel it the pain no longer bothers or distresses them.

Good reads include The Bhagavad Gita, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula, Tao Te Ching, etc

Of course this approach isn't mutually exclusive with finding ways to reduce pain through medical treatment or otherwise.

>> No.10422408

you should try kratom

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>>10422323
I'm sorry.

>>10422170
good enough advice/pic related is something I made a couple months back. I could add Boethius and put him next to Cicero

>>10422379
There's a throwaway line that I was PRETTY SURE was in Underworld but I guess it has to be in White Noise because I just ctrl+f'd the pdf and couldn't find it. It's a very throwaway line about "shoulder pain" that comes out of nowhere for no reason. Where is it in Mao II?

>>10422392
Thank you so much

>>10422408
Is this like ashwagandha?