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Lessons From A Roller Derby Fall

An accident left me with chronic pain, and a better understanding of how to forgive myself.

When my back pain got me fired from my old job, I had to become a school crossing guard to make ends meet.

Learning yoga made me stop blaming my weight and instead come to terms with my invisible disability.

The relationship between mind and body is complicated. Just because your pain is psychosomatic doesn't make you crazy.

But when you have chronic pain and have to work 12 hours a day in a factory or else people back home starve, what's the alternative?

Drawing comics for a living isn't all fun and games, says Evan Dorkin. Especially when you're living with chronic pain.