Problems, unqualified and undisclaimed.

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I realised tonight that I have, basically, been in pain for twenty years.

I have all sorts of thoughts about this, but I'm too sore, tired, medicated, and angry to make anything coherent out of them

ETA: But, in a nutshell — probably a hideously non-ergonomic nutshell with no padding for my hip — people in chronic pain need, basically, doulas.

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It's not that I don't take your point, but I am less inclined to bo bothered when a word from a culture no longer extant (Greek culture certainly being alive and a descendant but not sharing a lot of points wrt socio-political structure.)

It's a recognised profession around here, so in practical terms I think we're stuck with it.