24-year-old man
“I completed my training program and have now moved and gotten married.” [more]
21-year-old girl
“One thing I learned in therapy and that I try to put into practice as much as possible is not to let yourself be ruled by your headaches. Burying yourself every day, lying down and sleeping is exactly the worst thing you can do. Staying active, going out and “putting the pain behind you” is the only thing that makes it better...” [more]
19-year-old girl
“For the first time I was able to control my pain with the power of my thoughts. A great feeling to know that you are no longer at the mercy of your pain...” [more]
19-year-old girl
“I don’t attach importance to my pain if it arises as part of a phase. I’m aware it’s there, I register its presence, nothing more...” [more]
18-year-old boy
“I learned a lot during my stay in hospital. The most important thing was how to deal properly with my pain.” [mehr]
18-year-old girl
“I got my pain really well under control by practicing often. I hardly ever have the pain attacks anymore, and the pain has become quite weak in general. …“ [more]
17-year-old girl
“My therapist explained to me exactly why I have the headaches and also that I’m not imagining them. Just the confirmation that I wasn’t imagining the pain did me good...” [more]
17-year-old girl
“My pain does not stop me from living my life the way I want to. ...” [more]
17-year-old girl
“I’ve now got my migraines under control. I know how to tell a tension-type headache from a migraine....” [more]
16-year-old boy
“During the time in Datteln I was slowly weaned from the cortisone and learned how to fight my pain. And so lost my fear of it completely and in that way actually got my pain under control. ...“ [more]
16-year-old girl
“I’m having more fun in life again because I’m controlling my pain and the pain isn’t controlling my life. ...” [more]
16-year-old girl
“I always found it good to understand more and more about what was going on in my head (in the truest sense of the word). I unlearned my chronic headaches during that time. ...” [more]
16-year-old boy
“At some point you learn to accept your limitations and live with the migraines. Meanwhile I’m no different from other kids and that’s a good thing ...” [more]
16-year-old girl
“So I got the hang of it, but I wouldn’t have managed it alone. I went to school again every day, even when I had a headache. But they kept diminishing. I also didn’t think about them so often anymore and started having fun again.” [more]
15-year-old boy
“The time in Datteln was very helpful; I shared a lot of experiences with other patients. I felt very protected, wasn’t laughed at and was taken seriously. ...” [more]
15-year-old girl
“In the time after the pain therapy in Datteln the pain was less frequent and a few points weaker ;-). It was really pleasant and I was much more relaxed because of it. ...” [more]
15-year-old girl
“What really helped me was acquiring that knowledge; I now know how to avoid my headaches and why they were always automatically there. With this knowledge I was able to slowly get myself out of this cycle of constant headaches. ...” [more]
14-year-old girl
“Since then I’ve been able to live my life as I want to and not as the headaches dictated. ...” [more]
14-year-old boy
“Today I’m as good as pain free. I only have occasional migraines after very stressful days. But no longer every day, and that’s good.“ [more]
14-year-old girl
“The three-week stay in hospital was recommended to me and I accepted it, full of hope of finally having fewer headaches. In those three weeks I learned a lot about dealing with headaches. ...” [more]
14-year-old boy
“Now I can go to school and have no more absences or limitations due to headaches. ...” [more]
14-year-old boy
“That was a hard time, but in any case it was worth it. ... I can go to school regularly again and also to my free time activities.” [more]
14-year-old boy
"Pursue your hobby with passion and don’t let the pain control your life.…" [more]
14-year-old girl
“In the pain clinic I learned how to deal with the headaches, in order to then be free of them sometime.” [more]
14-year-old boy
“Early on in the time after the pain therapy I still found it hard to do the exercises they taught me, but now they work really well and I’ve got relatively good control over my pain. ...” [more]
12-year-old girl
“With the distraction techniques and relaxation therapies I learned there I got my headaches under control, and I’m feeling much better. ...” [more]
11-year-old boy
“The distraction therapy and the discipline that I learned helped me a lot at home. Now I have headaches much less often. ...” [more]