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<\/a><\/p>\nMy client has a difficult problem with migraines. When I mentioned wouldn’t it be nice to be free of the migraines and return to work instead of subsisting on disability, the reply was that that might mean going back to school to catch up to the current technology in the former job. Rather they would prefer to be well enough to engage in the volunteer work they enjoyed but not well enough to be off of the disability.<\/p>\n
I bring this up because many of us have enough “benefits” from our problems to want those problems to continue rather than face the change or uncertainty of returning to full mental or physical health.<\/p>\n
As a side note: Migraines affect an estimated 38 million Americans. They can strike both young and old, but a majority of sufferers are women, and\/or between the ages of 35 and 55.<\/p>\n
Worldwide, as many as 1 billion people are affected, making migraine the third most prevalent illness in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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