The Cut - Is the Pain All in My Head?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been in pain. It started with my jaw, which ached even in elementary school. My dentist thought braces might fix the problem, but all I got was a $10,000 smile and green bruises below my cheekbones. In adolescence, my right knee had a nasty habit of dislocating — at home, at school, and once in the middle of downward dog. As I got older, the pain pushed up like a storm front, where it still thunders between my shoulder blades. Today, my doctor suspects I have hypermobility, likely because of an underlying connective-tissue disorder. I’ve tried everything to alleviate the pain — physical therapy, psychotherapy, massage therapy — and found at most intermittent relief.

The Kim-Kanye saga keeps getting messier and, frankly, sadder. Starting in 2024, American students will take the SAT entirely online, and that makes us feel very old. “Virginity repair​” ​surgery t​hat aims to reconstruct the hymen ​using scar tissue will be banned in Britain under ​a ​new bill​.​ Jennie Nguyen has been fired from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City following backlash from a series of controversial social-media posts that recently resurfaced. Tips for tuning out the negative voice in your head. Teachers from across America share what school is like two years into a pandemic — tl;dr: It’s not pretty. And sorry guys, but the popular 25-cent martini deal at Anton’s is no more.

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