How Do You Handle Pain?

Some pain cannot be seen by the naked eye.  Can you see on my ankle what has caused me to stop running for a month now?  No one knows what I am feeling inside or how it has affected my life.

I have adjusted my workouts and have been very strict with my diet to accommodate for lack of exercise intensity.  So anyone looking at me wouldn’t know what I have been enduring.

How Do You Handle Pain?

Like many, hiding my pain has been my survival mechanism.   Making adjustments to live with the pain has been another way to manage my life.  I am not sure why we do this?  I don’t know what makes us wired to hide pain or especially to live with it.
I know that my ankle pain will eventually go away as it is getting better and better with rest and that is what I am doing to heal myself.  What are you doing with your pain?  How are you healing yourself?  How do you handle your pain?