What is the so-called pain cycle really?

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I’m suffer from chronic pain and, I keep reading that if you avoid things that cause pain out fear of the pain, particularly exercise, this creates a cycle that just makes things worse and so you shouldn’t avoid them. But I don’t get it — it’s not as if forcing myself to do things that agravate the pain makes it better later on. I can force myself to do stuff that agravates it if I really have to because the stuff just needs to get done, but my fear is usually _validated_ when I do.

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