Chronic Pain Nation

Dr. David L. Mount

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Trauma-Informed Storytelling Master Class
“David Mount’s book offers suggestions for rewriting our concept of chronic pain as a type of trauma and treating our clients and patients justly, addressing these traumatic sequelae.
The trifecta of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms involves key consequences: reexperiencing trauma, avoidance, and physiological arousal. When we look at chronic pain through the lens of trauma, we find the same. The world of chronic pain treatment is growing every year, but still, it can be flooded with erroneous and outdated ideas about chronic pain and addiction.”
—Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright, a practicing psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychotherapist with more than twenty-six years in the field of mental health and fifteen years as a neuropsychologist and forensic expert.
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“Pain management providers interact daily with a broad spectrum of society including administrators, mothers, attorneys, veterans, business owners, factory workers, teachers, and students. To a person, what these patients want is to be heard, to be understood, and to have action taken on their behalf. These people deserve more attention than they garner, more respect than they are given, and more sympathy than is lent. In the final analysis, it’s a matter of enough people demanding change for people in a meaningful way.”
—Dr. Christopher A. Gilmore, a partner at the Carolinas Pain Institute in Winston-Salem who has served as a clinical assistant professor and adjunct faculty at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
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“It is time to focus on the big picture of unmasking vulnerability and disability attached to unfulfilled dreams. Complex-persistent-debilitating chronic pain is a neuro-psycho-social collapsing condition that can adversely affect thinking, concentration, memory, sleep quality, energy, nutrition, behavior, mental well-being, and faith/spiritual practices. Chronic pain does not discriminate based on your sociodemographic characteristics, hitting with a boxer’s punch. No population segments or communities are off-limits, from Main Street to Wall Street, from the paved roads to the dirt roads. None of us, not one of us, want to be disqualified based on social standards that seek to marginalize our value because we live with chronic pain complications. But yes, it happens every day, the actions of others operating to sideline our talents, gifts, and long-standing contributions, creating a type of neuropsychosocial inertia in the suffering person. Being relegated to an invisible status is all too familiar for so many people in the chronic pain fraternity and sorority. This book will inspire new understanding and conversational breakthroughs as we explore the challenges, trials, and tribulations others are facing while hiding in plain sight.”
—Dr. David L. Mount, a proud husband, father, patient, congregational member, entrepreneur, influencer, philanthropist, talent coach, organizer, and mixed-methods innovator
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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 06 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669849001
• Langue: English

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CHRONIC PAIN NATION
 
The Domino Effect
Fighting through Mind Body Spiritual Burnout Trauma
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. David L. Mount
 
 
Copyright © 2022 by Dr. David L. Mount.

Library of Congress Control Number:
           2022917973
ISBN:
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978-1-6698-4902-5

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978-1-6698-4900-1
 
 
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Rev. date: 10/04/2022
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Biographical Statements
Foreword by Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright
Chapter 1 Introduction and Statement of Purpose
Chapter 2 Disparities from Bent Tree, Broken Roots, and Life in Detour
Chapter 3 Uncertainty Intolerance and Embracing Disruption
Chapter 4 Not All Chronic Pain Is Created Equal
Chapter 5 Chronic Pain PTSD: Can You Hear Me Now?
Chapter 6 Try Riding This Roller Coaster
Chapter 7 Draining Body, Soul, Mind, and Spirit
Chapter 8 Battlefield Body
Chapter 9 Broken-Indifferent-Traumatized
Chapter 10 Severe, Unrelenting, and Constant: Fighting Not to Give In
Chapter 11 Wouldn’t Wish It on My Worst Enemy
Chapter 12 Goodbye to the Stage, Performance, Ovation, and Curtain Call
Chapter 13 A Shell of Myself
Chapter 14 The Other Side of Me
Chapter 15 The War Inside
Chapter 16 What’s in Your Shoebox?
Chapter 17 Weight of the World
Chapter 18 Walking on Glass All Day Every Day
Chapter 19 Questioning, “Am I Good Enough?”
Chapter 20 Stop Making Me Feel Like Garbage
Chapter 21 A Fallen Gladiator
Chapter 22 Chaotic Mismatch
Chapter 23 Feeling Stigmatized, Not Validated, and Paranoid
Chapter 24 Body Going through Foreclosure
Chapter 25 Anger
Chapter 26 Stop Trivializing Me, Already Feeling Like Half a Person
Chapter 27 Pain of Mass Distraction
Chapter 28 From the Crown of My Head to the Sole of My Feet
Chapter 29 Conclusions and Implications
Bibliography
 
Hoping for the sun to rise
Experiences as Told by Veterans, Parents, Athletes, Educators, Healthcare Personnel, Clergy, Engineers, Entertainers, and Others Suffering in Silence
Dr. David L. Mount
Mind Body Institute Beyond
Author of The Truth Ain’t Popular: Impediments to Hope and Waking Up in College: Have an Inspired Higher Education Experience , in partnership with Mind Body Institute Beyond, PLLC; Global Mental Health Prosperity Network (501[c][3]); and Chocolate City Studios
 
Foreword by Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright
Afterword by Dr. Christopher Aaron Gilmore
Desperation + Uncertainty + Mood Changes + Isolation + Psychological Abandonment + Social Marginalization + Financial Disruption + Trauma + Bondage + Forgetfulness + Contradictions + Exhaustion + Fatigue + Solitary Confinement + Neurocognitive Collapse = Me , We , Them , They , Us
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A special thanks to my wife, kids, family, staff, colleagues, project participants, friends, and communities who continue to support our organization as allies, advocates, and collaborators.
This book is published in memory of those who have spoken purpose, promise, mission, faith, and service on my life.
Collye Manning
Reverend Dr. Bobby J. Dunn
Claretta Warren
Joe Mack Bowser
Reverend Dr. Carlton A. G. Eversley
We would like to acknowledge the thoughtful article written by Page Leggett, who is a writer, editor, author, and communications strategist. Upon interviewing Dr. David L. Mount, Page Leggett—via her partnership with the Carolinas Pain Institute—published the following:
Dr. David Mount would rather listen than talk. It’s not that he doesn’t have plenty to say. But on a patient’s first visit, he wants to hear what led the patient to his office. The neuropsychologist has a keen interest in the mind/body connection and a focus on how pain affects the brain. (“Pain impacts self-esteem and personal well-being,” he says. “It can cause internalized agony.”) Patients come to him with a variety of physical conditions—diabetic neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis, pain associated with an injury or surgery—and a variety of cognitive impairments that have resulted from a physical condition. Patients from all over the country (and the world) seek him out through his Mind Body Institute Beyond, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Most patients are referred by their medical doctor when a physical malady begins to impact cognitive ability—including memory.
And while Dr. Mount’s preference is to be consulted when a physician first begins talking to a patient about cognitive impairments, he says instead he’s often brought in when the physician is running out of ideas. . . . Dr. Mount sufferers from chronic pain in his neck and spine. It began in 2005 when he was new to Winston-Salem and went to a chiropractor for an adjustment. After getting what he considers “substandard care,” he realized he needed to educate himself on treatment options.
The full article can be read at https://carolinaspaininstitute.com/dr-david-mount/ .
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
Dr. David L. Mount is a proud husband, father, congregational member, entrepreneur, influencer, philanthropist, patient, talent coach, organizer, and mixed-methods innovator. This former student athlete’s origin story is connected to Saint Andrews, 1722 W 17 th St, Panama City, FL; Lucille Moore Elementary School; Mowat Junior High; Jenkins Junior High; and Bay High School. As a mental health provider and advocate, Dr. Mount is a clinical psychologist with specialization in clinical neuropsychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation psychology, integrative mind-body chronic pain management in trauma, and health disparities research.
He is founder of Global Mental Health Prosperity Network and president and CEO for the Mind Body Institute Beyond. His résumé includes being a TEDx speaker, an NIH-designated health disparities scholar, a North Carolina Forty Leaders under Forty Award recipient, a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” nominee, and a boundless personalization performance-based coach. Through the Dr. David L. Mount Center for Tomorrow’s work service learning, talent management, and volunteerism programs, he has founded both the North Carolina Network for Human Services Integration to Prosperity and the North Carolina Network eScholar-in-Residence (eSIR) programs. Dr. Mount is a member of the Alabama State University Fifty under Fifty 2020 class.
Dr. Mount’s community reinvestment activities range from social justice advocate to mixed-media documentarian, lecturer, writer, community organizer, team builder, and professional speaker. Using mixed-media podcasting and vodcasting platforms both anchored and enriched through Chocolate City Multimedia Studios, Innovations, and Productions Division, he and his associates created two original content-specific themes entitled “Say It: From the Chest off the Dome” and “The Grind 4 Lyfe #StopDreamingStartGrinding.”
Dr. Mount has written several dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers and posters, contributed to high-profile book chapters, promoted numerous student-enhancing endeavors, and written books entitled Waking Up in College: Have an Inspired Higher Education Experience , The Truth Ain’t Popular: Impediments to Hope , and Conversations with College Students: Rebooting Post-COVID-19 . To complement his social media pursuits and engagements, Dr. Mount is a sought-after speaker for national meetings and is a winner of mentoring, teaching, and service awards in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and North Carolina.
As an undergraduate attending Alabama State University, he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1994 with a major in psychology and a minor in sociology. While attending graduate school in Georgia, Dr. Mount earned two master’s degrees and was awarded the Doctorate of Psychology in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Mount pursued his residency (clinical neuropsychology and neurorehabilitation psychology) at the University of Missouri. In 2005, he started a faculty appointment at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and was one of the first faculty members recruited into the Maya Angelou Center. He holds several certificates including substance abuse professional, North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Practicing Psychologists certified health service provider in psychology, American Board of Disability Analysts fellow and analyst, National Academy of Neuropsychology affiliate-level status, behavioral medicine (University of Pittsburgh), chronic disease (a focus on health behavior) (University of Pittsburgh), and neuroimaging (University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon). He has held postdoctoral and faculty positions at several institutions. Dr. Mount has lived in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois, and North Carolina.
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Dr. Jennifer Bugg Wright is a seasoned psychologist, neuropsychologist, and psychotherapist with more than twenty-six yea