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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 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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