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Sapolsky's Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers: a charming tour of stress science
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item type
a chapter in a book
author
Robert M Sapolsky
chapter
Managing Stress
publisher
Times Books
year
2004
page
p. 396 (3rd ed edition)
The full quote/excerpt
Whenever something painful happens to me, amid all the distress I am surprised at being reminded of how painful pain is. That thought is always followed by another, “What if I hurt like this all the time?” Chronic pain syndromes are extraordinarily debilitating.
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