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Hi everyone, I'm Melissa. Welcome back to CloudMom. Quick video today. I wanted to talk
about a recent study that came out that I thought was so interesting, about how chronic
pain affects parents. And here's what the study said, and there is an article in The
Atlantic discussing this study, the lowdown is that when parents suffer from chronic pain,
children suffer as well. Experts from Kent State University in Ohio, they did a review,
and they post the results in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.
And they said that children whose parents experience chronic pain, they're at increased
risk for adjustment problems, behavioral issues, and they're more likely themselves to complain
of pain. In another study that this Atlantic article goes into, children felt that their
parents were uninvolved physically and/or emotionally and more likely to be irritable,
hostile and unpredictable. I thought this was so interesting, and I can't speak from
experience here because, you know, thank heavens I don't have chronic pain. You know I did
have some really bad back pain earlier in my life, but I haven't had it since I've been
a parent. But I wanted to reach out and ask parents who do have chronic pain, how does
this affect your parenting and what do you do? And the author of this amazing article
in The Atlantic, which I'll link to, um, struggles with this on a daily basis and she seems like
a completely amazing person. I know myself that when I'm not feeling my best, when I'm
tired, when I'm feeling sick, you know, I tend to be more irritable, less patient, definitely,
you know, less receptive to my kids and their needs. And I think that's just very normal
and human, so my heart goes out to these parents who are struggling with like really serious
health issues. And first of all, the pain and second of all, the anxiety that comes
from dealing with a serious, you know, endemic health issue like that. So anyway, I thought
this was like a really important article, an important set of studies, and I wanted
to talk about it on CloudMom, invite other people to weigh in with their own experience.
So, please give me your thoughts. I really appreciate you watching me, my videos. I hope
that you're feeling good, and I look forward to seeing you soon back here on CloudMom.