15-year-old girl
Hello,
I’m 15 years old today and was treated for pain in the chest area in the Vestische Children’s and Adolescents’ Clinic. In the beginning, when my pain began, I tried to calm and relax myself, or simply not think about it. Which didn’t really help much. When the pain had already been there almost daily for a long period of time, my mother went to the doctor with me, though he couldn’t find anything. And so then I came to the Lighthouse ward of the Vestische Children’s and Adolescents’ Clinic, after the doctors couldn’t find anything. Where I had pain therapy.
In the discussions I talked about how I imagine the pain in my mind, for instance, and if I wish that the pain wasn’t there anymore. Today I have no more pain in that sense. It went away gradually with the therapy, with thinking about the pain, when and how it came and also I learned relaxation exercises that taught me how to deal with the pain. Since the therapy I don’t actually think about the pain anymore at all and what kind of consequences it might have. Because of that I’m doing much better. I can do things without having pain again, and I can only advise anyone who has such problems to do therapy and also to pull through.
Best wishes, Katharina