The Lonely Migraine

People often ask me why as a psychotherapist I specialize in working people who struggle with migraines. I hope this sheds some light on the difficulty of the migraine struggle for many people.

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The lonely migraine.

It really just wants a friend. Someone to listen to it, someone to keep it company, someone to acknowledge how hard it is to accept care when care is needed, someone to acknowledge how lonely it really is inside.

Is the migraine really a separate form of invasion from the rest of our being, or is the migraine and the migraineur one and the same? How ...