It started with the pain. I never thought I’d be the person lying awake at 3 am, staring at the ceiling, running through every terrible scenario my brain could invent. But here I am. My back seized up on a Tuesday afternoon. Just like that, mid-lift, something tore. And in the weeks since, the pain hasn’t been the worst part. The worst part is what my mind does with it. The doctors use a word for it: catastrophising. They say it like...

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